Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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| 7.11.2009 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 267/59 |

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Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 23 September 2009 — Viñedos y Bodegas Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe v OHIM — Byass (ALFONSO)

(Case T-291/07)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2009267EN.01005902-E0001)

(Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark ALFONSO - Earlier Community and national word marks PRINCIPE ALFONSO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) - Scope of the examination to be carried out by the Board of Appeal - Obligation to rule on the entirety of the action - Article 62(1) of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 64(1) of Regulation No 207/2009)

2009/C 267/103

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Viñedos y Bodegas Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe, SA (Cenicero, Spain) (represented by: M. Lobato García-Miján and B. Díaz de Escauriaza, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Palmero Cabezas and J. Laporta Insa, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: González Byass, SA (Cádiz, Spain)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 May 2007 (Case R 1110/2006-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Viñedos y Bodegas Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe, SA and González Byass, SA

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 29 May 2007 (Case R 1110/2006-2); |

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| 2. | orders OHIM to pay the costs. |

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