Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 9.11.2015 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 371/24 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2015 — Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia v OHIM — Accelerate (COLOMBIANO COFFEE HOUSE)

(Case T-359/14)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2015371EN.01002401-E0001)

((Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community figurative mark COLOMBIANO COFFEE HOUSE - Earlier protected geographical indication Café de Colombia - Articles 13 and 14 of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

(2015/C 371/27)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia) (represented by: A. Pomares Caballero and M. Pomares Caballero, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: Ó. Mondéjar Ortuño, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Accelerate s.a.l. (Beirut, Lebanon)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 27 March 2014 (Case R 1200/2013-5) relating to invalidity proceedings between the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia and Accelerate s.a.l.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Annuls the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 27 March 2014 (Case R 1200/2013-5) in so far as it rejected the application for a declaration of invalidity; |

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| 2. | Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia. |

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