Joined Cases T-225/06, T-255/06, T-257/06 and T-309/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 December 2008 — Budějovický Budvar v OHIM — Anheuser-Busch (BUD) (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)
Date: 2008-12-16
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment (EU), beer, designation of origin, trade-mark law

7.2.2009

EN

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;