Case T‑514/11

(Publication by extracts)

i-content Ltd Zweigniederlassung Deutschland

v

Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark BETWIN — Earlier Community figurative mark b’Twin — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

Summary — Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber), 4 June 2013

Community trade mark — Appeals procedure — Action before the EU judicature — Possibility for the General Court to alter the contested decision — Limits

(Council Regulation No 207/2009, Arts 64(1), second sentence, and 65(3))

The power of the Court to alter decisions pursuant to Article 65(3) of Regulation No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark does not have the effect of conferring on the Court the power to carry out an assessment on which the Board of Appeal concerned has not yet adopted a position. Exercise of the power to alter decisions must therefore, in principle, be limited to situations in which the Court, after reviewing the assessment made by the Board of Appeal, is in a position to determine, on the basis of the matters of fact and of law as established, what decision the Board of Appeal was required to take.

(see para. 78)