Judgment_paragraph 74 · European Union Intellectual Property Office v Equivalenza Manufactory, SL (C-328/18 P)

74Second, in so far as the General Court also emphasises, at the stage of its assessment of the similarity of the signs at issue as a whole, their conceptual dissimilarity, it must be borne in mind that, in accordance with the case-law of the Court, the global assessment of the likelihood of confusion implies that conceptual differences between two signs may counteract phonetic and visual similarities between them, provided that at least one of those signs has, from the point of view of the relevant public, a clear and specific meaning, so that the public is capable of grasping it immediately (judgment of 18 December 2008, Les Éditions Albert René v OHIM, C‑16/06 P, EU:C:2008:739, paragraph 98; see also, to that effect, judgments of 12 January 2006, Case C‑361/04 P, Ruiz-Picasso and Others v OHIM, EU:C:2006:25, paragraph 20, and of 23 March 2006, Mülhens v OHIM, C‑206/04 P, EU:C:2006:194, paragraph 35).