Language of document :

Order of the General Court of 27 February 2014 – Lidl Stiftung v OHIM - Lídl Music (LIDL)

(Case T-226/12) 1

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark LIDL — Earlier national figurative mark LÍDL MUSIC — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Genuine use of the earlier mark — Article 15(1) and Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (Neckarsulm, Germany) (represented by: initially by M. Schaeffer, M. Wolter and A. Marx, and subsequently by M. Wolter, A. Marx and M. Kefferpütz, lawyers)

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

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the General Court: Lídl Music spol. s r.o. (Brno, Czech Republic)

Re:

Action for annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 21 March 2012 (Case R 2380/2010-1) relating to opposition proceedings between Lídl Music spol. s r.o. and Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG.

Operative part of the order

The Court:

1.    Dismisses the action.

2.    Orders Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG to pay the costs.

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1     OJ C 227, 28.7.2017.