CELEX: 62009TJ0214
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-20 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 20 October 2011. # COR Sitzmöbel Helmut Lübke GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for territorial extension of the protection of an international registration - Word mark COR - Earlier Community word mark CADENACOR - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) - Similarity of the signs - Similarity of the goods. # Case T-214/09.

Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 20 October 2011 – COR Sitzmöbel Helmut Lübke v OHIM – El Corte Inglés (COR)
      (Case T-214/09)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for territorial extension of the protection of an international registration – Word mark COR – Earlier Community word mark CADENACOR – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) – Similarity of the signs – Similarity of the goods
      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, 37, 66, 70-72)
      
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 March 2009 (Case R 376/2008-2) concerning
                  opposition proceedings between El Corte Inglés, SA, and COR Sitzmöbel Helmut Lübke GmbH & Co. KG.  
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders COR Sitzmöbel Helmut Lübke GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.