Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 12.11.2011 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 331/24 |

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Action brought on 19 August 2011 — Scandic Distilleries v OHMI — Bürgerbräu, August Röhm & Söhne (BÜRGER)

(Case T-460/11)

2011/C 331/46

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Scandic Distilleries SA (Bihor, Romania) (represented by: Á. László, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Bürgerbräu, August Röhm & Söhne KG (Bad Reichenhall, Germany)

Form of order sought

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| — | Alter the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 25 May 2011 in case R 1962/2010-2 and render the registration of the trade mark application as a Community trade mark with regard to all goods and services concerned; |

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| — | Order the defendant to pay the costs of the proceedings. |

Pleas in law and main arguments

Applicant for a Community trade mark: The applicant

Community trade mark concerned: The figurative mark ‘BÜRGER ORIGINAL PREMIUM PILS TRADITIONAL BREWED QUALITY REGISTERED TRADEMARK SIEBENBURGEN’, for goods and services in classes 32 and 35 — Community trade mark application No 8359663

Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal

Mark or sign cited in opposition: Community trade mark registration No 1234061 of the word mark ‘Bürgerbräu’, for goods and services in classes 21, 32 and 42

Decision of the Opposition Division: Partially upheld the opposition

Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissed the appeal

Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Council Regulation No 207/2009, as the Board of Appeal wrongly established the existence of likelihood of confusion

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