CELEX: 62013TA0640
Language: en
Date: 2016-01-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-640/13: Judgment of the General Court of 28 January 2016 — Sto v OHIM Fixit Trockenmörtel Holding (CRETEO) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark CRETEO — Earlier national word marks StoCretec and STOCRETE — Relative ground for refusal — Distinctive character acquired through use — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

14.3.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 98/32
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 28 January 2016 — Sto v OHIM Fixit Trockenmörtel Holding (CRETEO)
   (Case T-640/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark CRETEO - Earlier national word marks StoCretec and STOCRETE - Relative ground for refusal - Distinctive character acquired through use - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 098/41)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Sto SE & Co. KGaA, formerly Sto AG (Stühlingen, Germany (represented by: K. Kern and J. Sklepek, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: D. Walicka, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Fixit Trockenmörtel Holding AG (Baar, Switzerland) (represented by: K. Lochner and C. Thomas, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 25 September 2013 (Case R 905/2012-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Sto AG and Fixit Trockenmörtel Holding AG.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Sto SE & Co. KGaA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 39, 8.2.2014.