Judgment_paragraph 36 · Mülhens GmbH & Co. KG v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-150/04)

36In order to give rise to a degree of similarity for the purposes of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 40/94, this aesthetically complementary nature must involve a genuine aesthetic necessity, in that one product is indispensable or important for the use of the other and consumers consider it ordinary and natural to use these products together (see, to that effect, Case T-169/03 Sergio Rossi v OHIM — Sissi Rossi (SISSI ROSSI) [2005] ECR II-685, paragraphs 60 and 62).

Mülhens GmbH & Co. KG v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-150/04)

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