Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2011 — Dornbracht v OHIM — Metaform Lucchese (META)

(Case T-1/09) (1)

(Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - Application for the Community word mark META - Earlier Community figurative mark METAFORM - Relative grounds for refusal - Similarity of the goods and the signs - Refusal of registration - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) - Likelihood of confusion)

2011/C 319/27

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Aloys F. Dornbracht GmbH & Co KG (Iserlohn, Germany) (represented by: P. Mes, C. Graf von der Groeben, G. Rother, J. Bühling, A. Verhauwen, J. Künzel, D. Jestaedt and M. Bergermann, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Schäffner, agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Metaform Lucchese SpA (Pescaglia, Italy) (represented by: P. Pozzi and A. Perani, lawyers)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 3 November 2008 (Case R 1152/2006-4) concerning opposition proceedings between Metaform Lucchese SpA and Aloys F. Dornbracht GmbH & Co KG.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

(1)  OJ C 69, 21.3.2009.