CELEX: 62011CJ0306
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 June 2012. # XXXLutz Marken GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Appeals - Community trade mark - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Figurative mark Linea Natura Natur hat immer Stil - Opposition by the proprietor of the Community figurative mark natura selection - Relative grounds for refusal - Likelihood of confusion. # Case C-306/11 P.

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 June 2012 —XXXLutz Marken v OHIM
      (Case C-306/11 P)
      Appeal — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Figurative mark Linea Natura Natur hat immer Stil — Opposition by the proprietor of the Community figurative mark natura selection — Relative grounds for refusal — Likelihood of confusion
      1.                     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 — Similarity
            of the marks concerned — Criteria for assessment — Composite mark (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 39-41)
      2.                     Appeals — Grounds — Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence — Inadmissibility — Review by the Court of the assessment
            of the facts and evidence — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute
            of the Court of Justice, Art. 58(1)) (see para. 50)
      Re: 
      
         Appeal against the judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 24 March 2011 in Case T-54/09 
               XXXLutz Marken
                v 
               OHIM — Natura Selection (Linea Natura Natur hat immer Stil) 
               dismissing the action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 28 November 2008 (Case R 1787/2007-2)
                  relating to opposition proceedings between Natura Selection, SL and XXXLutz Marken GmbH — Likelihood of confusion between
                  the figurative signs ‘natura selection’ and ‘Linea Natura Natur hat immer Stil’ — Erroneous assessment of the similarity of
                  those signs — Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the appeal;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders XXXLutz Marken GmbH to pay the costs.