CELEX: 62011TJ0064
Language: en
Date: 2012-02-07
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 7 February 2012. # Run2Day Franchise BV v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark Run2 - Earlier Community word and figurative marks RUN2DAY - Earlier BENELUX figurative mark RUN2DATE - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-64/11.

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 7 February 2012 — Run2Day Franchise v OHIM — Runners Point (Run²)(Case T‑64/11)
      Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark Run2 — Earlier Community word and figurative marks RUN2DAY — Earlier Benelux figurative mark RUN2DATE — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      Community trade mark — Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark — Relative grounds for refusal — Opposition by the proprietor of an earlier identical or similar mark registered for identical or similar goods or services — Likelihood of confusion with the earlier mark (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 23, 45-51)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 11 November 2010 (Case R 349/2010‑1) concerning
                  opposition proceedings between Run2Day Franchise BV and Runners Point Warenhandels GmbH.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
                     (OHIM) of 11 November 2010 (Case R 349/2010‑1);
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders OHIM and Runners Point Warenhandels GmbH to pay, apart from their own costs, those incurred by Run2Day Franchise BV.