CELEX: 62010TJ0216
Language: en
Date: 2011-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 23 November 2011. # Monster Cable Products, Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark MONSTER ROCK - Earlier national mark MONSTERS OF ROCK - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the goods - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-216/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 23 November 2011 – Monster Cable Products v OHIM – Live Nation (Music) UK
            (MONSTER ROCK)
      (Case T-216/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community word mark MONSTER ROCK – Earlier national mark MONSTERS OF ROCK – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Similarity of the goods – 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 17, 53-54)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 24 February 2010 (Case R 216/2009-1), concerning
                  opposition proceedings between Live Nation (Music) UK Ltd and Monster Cable Products, Inc.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Monster Cable Products, Inc. to pay the costs.