CELEX: 62010TJ0205
Language: en
Date: 2012-01-31
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 31 January 2012. # Cervecería Modelo, SA de CV v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - Application for Community word mark LA VICTORIA DE MEXICO - Earlier Community figurative mark containing the word element 'victoria' and earlier national word mark VICTORIA - Registration refused in part - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-205/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 31 January 2012 – Cervecería Modelo v OHIM – Plataforma Continental (LA
            VICTORIA DE MEXICO)
      (Case T-205/10)
      Community trade mark – Opposition procedure – Application for Community word mark LA VICTORIA DE MEXICO – Earlier Community figurative mark containing the word element ‘victoria’ and earlier national word mark VICTORIA – Registration refused in part – 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 31-32, 81-82)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 5 March 2010 (Case R 322/2009-2) in relation
                  to opposition proceedings between Plataforma Continental, SL and Cervecería Modelo, SA de CV.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Cervecería Modelo, SA de CV to pay the costs.