Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 October 2012.#ara AG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs).#Appeal – Community trade mark – Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – Article 8(1)(b) – International registration designating the European Community – Figurative mark A with two triangular motifs – Earlier national word mark A – Relative grounds for refusal – No likelihood of confusion.#Case C‑611/11 P.

ECLI:EU:C:2012:626Eu Chamb 05 COct 10, 2012

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Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 October 2012 —
ara v OHIM

(Case C-611/11 P)

Appeal – Community trade mark – Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – Article 8(1)(b) – International registration designating the European Community – Figurative mark A with two triangular motifs – Earlier national word mark A – Relative grounds for refusal – No likelihood of confusion

1.                     Appeals – Grounds – Inadequate or contradictory grounds – Admissibility (see para. 35)

2.                     Appeals – Grounds – Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence – Inadmissibility – Review by the Court of Justice of the assessment of the facts and evidence – Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see para. 41)

3.                     Appeals – Grounds – Mere repetition of the pleas and arguments put forward before the General Court – Error of law relied on not identified – Inadmissibility (Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court, Art. 112(1)(c)) (see para. 46)

4.                     Appeals – Grounds – Plea submitted for the first time in the context of the appeal – Inadmissibility (Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 51) (see para. 58)

Re:

Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 September 2011 in Case T-174/10 ara v OHIM — Allrounder (A with two triangular motifs) , by which the General Court rejected the action brought for the annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 26 January 2010 (Case R 481/2009-1), relating to opposition proceedings between ara and Allrounder — Article 8(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1) — Figurative mark A with two triangular motifs — Opposition by the proprietor of the national word mark ‘A’ — Likelihood of confusion between two marks — Erroneous assessment of distinctive character.

Operative part

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the appeal;

2.

Orders ara AG to pay the costs.

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