SPEZOOMIX Held to Be Confusingly Similar to SPEZI

In BrandGroup GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) and Brauerei S Riegele, Inh Riegele KG (Case T-557/14), the EU General Court has upheld a decision of the OHIM Board of Appeal which had found that there was a likelihood of confusion between the signs SPEZOOMIX and SPEZI.