CELEX: 62010TJ0088
Language: en
Date: 2011-07-13 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 13 July 2011. # Inter IKEA Systems BV v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark GLÄNSA - Earlier Community word mark GLANZ - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-88/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 13 July 2011 – Inter IKEA Systems v OHIM – Meteor Controls (GLÄNSA)
      (Case T-88/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community word mark GLÄNSA – Earlier Community word mark GLANZ – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – 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 24-25, 45, 48)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 1 December 2009 (Case R 529/2009‑2) in relation
                  to opposition proceedings between Meteor Controls International Ltd and Inter IKEA Systems BV.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Inter IKEA Systems BV to pay the costs.