Judgment of the General Court of 28 January 2015 — BSH v OHIM (AquaPerfect)

(Case T-123/14) 

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark AquaPerfect — Earlier Community word mark waterPerfect — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of  HYPERLINK "http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32009R0207:fr:NOT" \l "TEXTE" Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH (Munich, Germany) (represented by: S. Biagosch, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: L. Rampini, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Arçelik A.Ş. (Istanbul, Turkey) (represented by: A. Franke, lawyer)Re:Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 December 2013 (Case R 314/2013-4) concerning opposition proceedings between BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH and Arçelik A.Ş.Operative part of the judgmentThe

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osch, lawyer)Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: L. Rampini, acting as Agent)Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM

, intervening before the Genera

l Court: Ar

çelik A.Ş. (Istanbul, Turkey) (represented by: A. Franke, lawyer)Re:Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 December 2013 (Case R 314/2013-4) concerning opposition proceedings between BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH and Arçelik A.Ş.Operative part of the judgmentThe Court:1.    Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 9 December 2013 (Case R 314/2013-4) concerning opposition proceedings between BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH and Arçelik A.Ş.;2.    Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte;3.    Orders Arçelik to bear its own costs.