“…that the marks at issue were visually dissimilar and hence was wrong to conclude that there was no likelihood of confusion. Shoe Branding’s appeal to the CJEU (Case C-396/15P) was dismissed as being in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly unfounded: see Order of the Court of 17 February 2016.…”
“…peal respectively” and that those judicial decisions were res judicata: [99]. The General Court noted that following the dismissal of Shoe Branding’s appeal in Case C-396/15P, the annulling judgment in Case T-145/14 had become final. It therefore had “the authority of res judicata with absolute effect”:…”