59It is settled case-law that the perception of the marks in the mind of the average consumer of the category of goods or services in question plays a decisive role in the global assessment of the likelihood of confusion (Lloyd Schuhfabrik Meyer, paragraph 25, and Case C-361/04 P Ruiz-Picasso and Others v OHIM [2006] ECR I-643, paragraph 38).
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