CELEX: 62013TA0060
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-60/13: Judgment of the General Court of 23 September 2015 — Appelrath-Cüpper v OHIM — Ann Christine Lizenzmanagement (AC) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for figurative Community trade mark AC — Earlier figurative national and international trade marks AC ANN CHRISTINE and earlier figurative Community trade marks AC ANN CHRISTINE OCEAN and AC ANN CHRISTINE INTIMATE — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

23.11.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 389/27
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 23 September 2015 — Appelrath-Cüpper v OHIM — Ann Christine Lizenzmanagement (AC)
   (Case T-60/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for figurative Community trade mark AC - Earlier figurative national and international trade marks AC ANN CHRISTINE and earlier figurative Community trade marks AC ANN CHRISTINE OCEAN and AC ANN CHRISTINE INTIMATE - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 389/28)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Reiner Appelrath-Cüpper Nachf. GmbH (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: C. Schumann and A. Berger, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Ann Christine Lizenzmanagement GmbH & Co. KG (Vienna, Austria) (represented by: M. Hartmann, N. Voß and S. Fröhlich, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 28 November 2012 (Case R 108/2012-4), concerning opposition proceedings between Ann Christine Lizenzmanagement GmbH & Co. KG and Reiner Appelrath-Cüpper Nachf. GmbH.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Orders that the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 28 November 2012 (Case R 108/2012-4) is annulled in so far as it upheld in part the opposition brought by Ann Christine Lizenzmanagement GmbH & Co. KG;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay half the costs incurred by Reiner Appelrath-Cüpper Nachf. GmbH;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Ann Christine Lizenzmanagement GmbH & Co. KG to bear its own costs and to pay half the costs incurred by Reiner Appelrath-Cüpper Nachf. GmbH for the purposes of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 101, 6.4.2013.