Case T-228/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 December 2008 — Giorgio Beverly Hills v OHIM — WHG (GIORGIO BEVERLY HILLS) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark GIORGIO BEVERLY HILLS — Earlier national word mark GIORGIO — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
Date: 2008-12-10
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment (EU), cosmetic product, trade-mark law

7.2.2009

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 32/27

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 December
2008 — Budějovický Budvar v OHIM — Anheuser-Busch
(BUD)

4. Orders Anheuser-Busch to bear its own costs and to pay one third

of the costs of Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik.

(Joined

Cases

T-225/06,

T-255/06,

T-257/06

and

(1) OJ C 261, 28.10.2006.

T-309/06) (1)

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings —
Applications for Community word and figurative marks BUD
— Appellations ‘bud’ — Relative grounds for refusal —
Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(2009/C 32/49)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik (Česke Budějo-
vice, Czech Republic)
(represented by: F. Fajgenbaum and
C. Petsch, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks
Folliard-
Monguiral, acting as Agent)

(represented by: A.

and Designs)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM,
intervening before the Court of First Instance: Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
(Saint Louis, Missouri, United States) (represented:
initially by
V. von Bomhard, A. Renck, B. Goebel and A. Pohlmann, and
subsequently by V. von Bomhard, A. Renck and B. Goebel,
lawyers)

Re:

Actions brought against decisions of
the Second Board of
Appeal of OHIM of 14 June 2006 (Case R 234/2005-2), 28 June
2006 (Cases R 241/2005-2 and R 802/2004-2)
and
1 September 2006 (Case R 305/2005-2) relating to opposition
proceedings between Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik and
Anheuser-Busch, Inc.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Orders the joinder of Cases T-225/06, T-255/06, T-257/06 and

T-309/06 for the purposes of the judgment;

2. Annuls the decisions of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office
for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and
Designs (OHIM) of 14 June (Case R 234/2005-2), 28 June
(Cases R 241/2005-2 and R 802/2004-2) and 1 September
2006 (Case R 305/2005-2) relating to opposition proceedings
between Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik and Anheuser-Busch,
Inc.;

3. Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay two thirds of the

costs of Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik;

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 December
2008 — Giorgio Beverly Hills v OHIM — WHG (GIORGIO
BEVERLY HILLS)

(Case T-228/06) (1)

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings —
Application for Community word mark GIORGIO BEVERLY
HILLS — Earlier national word mark GIORGIO —
Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion —
Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(2009/C 32/50)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Giorgio Beverly Hills, Inc. (Cincinnati, Ohio, United
States)
(represented by: M. Schaeffer, and subsequently by
K. Sandberg, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
(represented by: S. Laitinen and
G. Schneider, Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM
intervening before the Court of First Instance: WHG Westdeutsche
Handelsgesellschaft mbH (Hagen, Germany)
(represented by:
H. Prange, lawyer)

Re:

ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of
Appeal of OHIM of 21 June 2006 (Joined Cases R 107/2005-2
and R 187/2005-2),
concerning opposition proceedings
between WHG Westdeutsche Handelsgesellschaft mbH and
Giorgio Beverly Hills, Inc.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office
(Trade Marks and
for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
Designs) (OHIM) of 21 June 2006 (Cases R 107/2005-2 and
R 187/2005-2) in so far as it dismissed the appeal
in Case
R 187/2005-2;

C 32/28

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Official Journal of the European Union

7.2.2009

2. Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by
Giorgio Beverly Hills, Inc. during the proceedings before the Court
of First Instance;

3. Orders WHG Westdeutsche Handelsgesellschaft mbH to bear its
own costs and to pay those incurred by Giorgio Beverly Hills for
the purposes of
the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of
OHIM.

(1) OJ C 249, 14.10.2006.

2. Orders Miguel Torres SA to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 29, 2.12.2006.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 December
2008 — Greece v Commission

(Case T-339/06) (1)

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 December
2008 — Torres v OHIM — Navisa Industrial Vinícola
Española (MANSO DE VELASCO)

(Case T-259/06) (1)

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Appli-
cation for the Community word mark MANSO DE VELASCO
— Earlier national word mark VELASCO — Relative ground
for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of
Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(2009/C 32/51)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Miguel Torres, SA (Vilafranca del Penedés, Spain)
(represented by: E. Armijo Chávarri and A. Castán Pérez-Gómez,
lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
J. Laporta Insa,
Agent)

(represented by:

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM:
Navisa Industrial Vinícola Española, SA (Montilla, Spain)

(Agriculture — Common organisation of the market in wine
— Aid for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards —
Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 — Fixing of the definitive
financial allocations made to Member States — Decision
in
2006/669/EC — Binding nature of
Article 16(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 — Principles
of cooperation in good faith, good faith and sound administra-
tion, proportionality and effectiveness)

time-limit

the

(2009/C 32/52)

Language of the case: Greek

Parties

Applicant: Hellenic Republic (represented by:
S. Papaioannou, acting as Agents)

I. Chalkias and

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: H. Tserepa-Lacombe, M. Konstantinidis and F. Jimeno
Fernández, acting as Agents)

Re:

of

for

annulment

Application
Commission Decision
2006/669/EC of 4 October 2006 fixing, for the 2006 financial
year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, the defini-
tive financial allocations to Member States for the restructuring
and conversion of vineyards under Council Regulation (EC)
No 1493/1999 (OJ 2006 L 275, p. 62)

Re:

Operative part of the judgment

Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal
of OHIM of 29 June 2006 (Case R 865/2005-1) relating to
opposition proceedings between Navisa Industrial Vinícola Espa-
ñola, SA and Miguel Torres, SA.

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 326, 30.12.2006.