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Document 62009TJ0371

    Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 22 May 2012.
    Retractable Technologies, Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
    Community trade mark - Opposition Procedure - Application for figurative Community mark FT - Earlier national word mark RTH - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009.
    Case T-371/09.

    European Court Reports 2012 -00000

    ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2012:244





    Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 22 May 2012 —
    Retractable Technologies v OHIM — Abbott Laboratories (RT)

    (Case T‑371/09)

    Community trade mark — Opposition Procedure — Application for figurative Community mark RT — Earlier national word mark RTH — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — 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 27, 28, 43-45)

    Re:

    ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 24 July 2009 (Case R 1234/2008‑4) concerning opposition proceedings between Abbott Laboratories and Retractable Technologies, Inc.

    Operative part

    The Court:

    1.

    Dismisses the action;

    2.

    Orders Retractable Technologies, Inc. to pay the costs.

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