Judgment_paragraph 57 · European Union Intellectual Property Office v Equivalenza Manufactory, SL (C-328/18 P)

57In that respect, it must be recalled that, in accordance with the settled case-law of the Court, the existence of a risk of confusion in the mind of the public must be assessed as a whole by taking account of all the relevant factors of the case in question (judgments of 11 November 1997, SABEL, C‑251/95, EU:C:1997:528, paragraph 22, and of 8 May 2014, Bimbo v OHIM, C‑591/12 P, EU:C:2014:305, paragraph 20), which include inter alia the degree of similarity between the signs at issue and the goods or services in question and also the strength of the earlier mark’s reputation and its degree of distinctive character, whether inherent or acquired through use (judgment of 24 March 2011, Ferrero v OHIM, C‑552/09 P, EU:C:2011:177, paragraph 64).