CELEX: 62013TA0720
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-720/13: Judgment of the General Court of 30 September 2015 — GAT Microencapsulation v OHIM — BASF (KARIS) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community word mark KARIS — Earlier Community marks and earlier international word mark CARYX — Earlier national marks and earlier Benelux word mark AKRIS — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

23.11.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 389/42
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 30 September 2015 — GAT Microencapsulation v OHIM — BASF (KARIS)
   (Case T-720/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark KARIS - Earlier Community marks and earlier international word mark CARYX - Earlier national marks and earlier Benelux word mark AKRIS - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 389/45)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: GAT Microencapsulation GmbH (formerly GAT Microencapsulation AG) (Ebenfurth, Austria) (represented by: S. Soler Lerma and C. March Cabrelles, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: I. Harrington, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 28 October 2013 (Case R 1862/2012-5) relating to opposition proceedings between BASF SE and GAT Microencapsulation GmbH (formerly GAT Microencapsulation AG).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Gat Microencapsulation GmbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 71, 8.3.2014.