CELEX: 62009TA0378
Language: en
Date: 2012-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Case T-378/09: Judgment of the General Court of 31 January 2012 — Spar v OHIM — Spa Group Europe (SPA GROUP) (Community trade mark — Opposition procedure — Application for Community word mark SPA GROUP — Earlier national figurative marks SPAR — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — No similarity between the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009)

10.3.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 73/27
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 31 January 2012 — Spar v OHIM — Spa Group Europe (SPA GROUP)
   (Case T-378/09) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - Application for Community word mark SPA GROUP - Earlier national figurative marks SPAR - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - No similarity between the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009)
   2012/C 73/53
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Spar Handelsgesellschaft mbH (Schenefeld, Germany) (represented by: R. Kaase and J.-C. Plate, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Hanne, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Spa Group Europe Ltd & Co. KG (Nuremberg, Germany)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 16 July 2009 (Case R 123/2008-1) in relation to opposition proceedings between Spar Handelsgesellschaft mbH and Spa Group Europe Ltd & Co. KG.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Spar Handelsgesellschaft mbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 282, 21.11.2009.