74In the present case, the global assessment under Article 8(5) of Regulation No 207/2009, to determine whether the relevant public makes a link between the marks at issue, leads to the conclusion that, given the degree of similarity, however faint, between those marks, there is a risk that the relevant public might establish such a link. Although the signs at issue are only slightly similar, it is not altogether inconceivable that the relevant public could make a link between them and, even if there is no likelihood of confusion, be led to transfer the image and the values of the earlier marks to the goods bearing the mark applied for (see, to that effect, judgment in BEATLE, paragraph 25 above, EU:T:2012:177, paragraph 71). Thus, contrary to the Board of Appeal’s conclusion in paragraph 33 of the contested decision, there is a sufficient degree of similarity between the signs at issue, for the purposes of the case-law cited in paragraph 32 above, for the relevant public to make a connection between the mark applied for and the earlier Community trade marks, that is to say, to establish a link between them for the purposes of that provision.
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