CELEX: 62010TJ0247
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-06
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 6 October 2011. # medi GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark deutschemedi.de - Earlier Community word mark World of medi, earlier national figurative and word marks medi.eu, medi welt, medi-Verband and medi, and earlier trading name and company name medi - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-247/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 6 October 2011 – medi v OHIM – Deutsche Medien Center (deutschemedi.de)
      (Case T-247/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the Community word mark deutschemedi.de – Earlier Community word mark World of medi, earlier national figurative and word marks medi.eu, medi welt, medi-Verband and
         medi, and earlier trading name and company name medi – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1) 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 22, 38, 44, 49, 53)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 16 March 2010 (Case R 1336/2008-4) relating to
                  opposition proceedings between Weihermüller & Voigtmann GmbH & Co. KG and Deutsche Medi Präventions GmbH.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
                     Designs) (OHIM) of 16 March 2010 (Case R 1336/2008-4);
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders OHIM to bear, in addition to its own costs, the costs of Medi GmbH & Co. KG;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Deutsche Medien Center GmbH to bear its own costs.