CELEX: 62009TJ0134
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 28 June 2012. # Antonio Basile and I Marchi Italiani Srl v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community figurative mark B. Antonio Basile 1952 - Earlier national word mark BASILE - Relative ground for refusal - Limitation in consequence of acquiescence - Article 53(2) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 54(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1) of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 8(1) of Regulation No 207/2009. # Case T-134/09.

Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 28 June 2012 —Basile and I Marchi Italiani v OHIM — Osra (B. Antonio Basile 1952)(Case T-134/09)
      Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community figurative mark B. Antonio Basile 1952 — Earlier national word mark BASILE — Relative ground for refusal — Limitation through acquiescence — Article 53(2) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 54(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1) of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 8(1) of Regulation No 207/2009)
      1.                     Community trade mark — Appeals procedure — Action before the EU judicature — Jurisdiction of the General Court — Review of
            the lawfulness of decisions of the Boards of Appeal — General Court taking account of legal and factual elements not previously
            submitted before the OHIM bodies — Exclusion (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 135(4); Council Regulation No 40/94,
            Art. 63) (see paras 15, 18, 22)
      2.                     Community trade mark — Surrender, revocation and invalidity — Limitation through acquiescence — Limitation period — Point
            from which time starts to run (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 53(2)) (see paras 30-32)
      3.                     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 — Assessment of the likelihood of confusion (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b))
            (see paras 37, 39, 62)
      4.                     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 — Complex mark (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 40,
            41, 44, 45)
      5.                     Community trade mark — Surrender, revocation and invalidity — Relative grounds for invalidity — Existence of an identical
            or similar earlier mark registered for identical or similar goods or services — Likelihood of confusion with the earlier mark —
            Figurative mark B. Antonio Basile 1952 and word mark BASILE (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b), and 52(1)(a)) (see
            paras 61, 63, 64, 69)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 January 2009 (Case R 1436/2007-2) relating
                  to invalidity proceedings between Osra SA and Mr Antonio Basile.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Removes the name of the second applicant, I Marchi Italiani Srl, from the list of applicants in Case T-134/09;
               
            
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Mr Antonio Basile to pay the costs, other than those relating to the discontinuance;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders I Marchi Italiani Srl to bear its own costs.