Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 2.5.2016 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 156/38 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 18 March 2016 — Grupo Bimbo v OHIM (BIMBO)

(Case T-33/15)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2016156EN.01003802-E0001)

((Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark BIMBO - Absolute grounds for refusal - Absence of distinctive character - Descriptive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) and 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

(2016/C 156/50)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Grupo Bimbo, SAB de CV (Mexico City, Mexico) (represented by: N. Fernández Fernández-Pacheco, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: E. Zaera Cuadrado, acting as Agent)

Re:

Action for annulment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 19 November 2014 (Case R 251/2014-2) concerning an application for registration of the word sign BIMBO as a Community trade mark.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Grupo Bimbo, SAB de CV to pay the costs. |

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