80In those circumstances, both the Opposition Division and the Board of Appeal were right to concentrate their analysis on the likelihood of confusion between the mark applied for in that case and the earlier mark. If it is found that there exists a likelihood of confusion between the mark applied for in that case and the earlier mark, there will be no need to take account of the second earlier mark. Similarly, if it is found that there is no such likelihood, that finding will apply a fortiori in respect of the second earlier mark, which contains, besides the image of the deer's head which also appears in the earlier mark, the additional features mentioned in the previous paragraph which distinguish it to a greater extent from the mark applied for in that case. In this respect, it should also be observed that in its application in Case T-103/03 the applicant itself focused its analysis on the similarities between the mark applied for and the earlier mark.
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