Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 28.5.2011 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 160/20 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 13 April 2011 — Sociedad Agricola Requingua v OHIM — Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Toro (TORO DE PIEDRA)

(Case T-358/09)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2011160EN.01002002-E0001)

(Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark TORO DE PIEDRA - Earlier Community figurative mark D. ORIGEN TORO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Right to be heard - Obligation to state the reasons on which a decision is based - Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009)

2011/C 160/30

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Sociedad Agricola Requingua Ltda (Santiago, Chile) (represented by: E. Vorbuchner, C. Ley and M. Heidelberg, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo and A. Folliard-Monguiral, Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Toro (Toro, Spain)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 18 June 2009 (Case R 1117/2008-2) concerning opposition proceedings between Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Toro and Sociedad Agricola Requingua Ltda.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Sociedad Agricola Requingua Ltda to pay the costs. |

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