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Document 62008TJ0379
Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 15 March 2012. # Mustang - Bekleidungswerke GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for a figurative Community mark representing a wavy line - Earlier national and international figurative trade marks representing a white wavy line on a black background - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009). # Case T-379/08.
Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 15 March 2012.
Mustang - Bekleidungswerke GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for a figurative Community mark representing a wavy line - Earlier national and international figurative trade marks representing a white wavy line on a black background - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009).
Case T-379/08.
Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 15 March 2012.
Mustang - Bekleidungswerke GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for a figurative Community mark representing a wavy line - Earlier national and international figurative trade marks representing a white wavy line on a black background - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009).
Case T-379/08.
Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2012:125
- Date of document:
- 15/03/2012
- Date lodged:
- 11/09/2008
- Author:
- General Court
- Country or organisation from which the request originates:
- Germany
- Form:
- Judgment
- Authentic language:
- German
- Type of procedure:
- Action for annulment - unfounded
- Judge-Rapporteur:
- O'Higgins
- Treaty:
- Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
- Link
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- Instruments cited in case law:
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- 31994R0040-A08P2LAPT2: N 21
- 31994R0040-A08P2LAPT3: N 21
- 31994R0040-A08P1LB: N 21 - 61
- 61995CJ0251: N 24
- 61997CJ0039: N 24 53
- 61997CJ0342: N 24 47
- 62001TJ0006: N 40
- 62001TJ0162: N 22
- 62001TJ0292: N 58
- 62002TJ0296: N 29
- 62003TJ0081: N 53
- 62003TJ0164: N 24
- 62004TJ0256: N 26
- 62005CJ0334: N 39
- 62005TJ0443: N 30
- 62006TJ0134: N 60
- 62007TJ0290: N 40
- 62007TJ0316: N 23
- 62009TJ0433: N 29
- Subject matter:
Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 15 March 2012 — Mustang v OHIM – Decathlon (Wavy line)
(Case T‑379/08)
Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for a figurative Community mark representing a wavy line — Earlier national and international figurative trade marks representing a white wavy line on a black background — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now 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 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 26-28, 56-59)
Re:
| ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 8 July 2008 (Case R 859/2007-4) concerning opposition proceedings between Decathlon SA and Mustang – Bekleidungswerke GmbH & Co. KG. |
Operative part
The Court:
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1. |
Dismisses the action; |
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2. |
Orders Mustang – Bekleidungswerke GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs. |
