CELEX: 62009TN0471
Language: en
Date: 2009-11-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-471/09: Action brought on 27 November 2009 — Oetker Nahrungsmittel v OHIM — Bonfait (Buonfatti)

30.1.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/63
            
         Action brought on 27 November 2009 — Oetker Nahrungsmittel v OHIM — Bonfait (Buonfatti)
   (Case T-471/09)
   2010/C 24/111
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Dr. August Oetker Nahrungsmittel KG (Bielefeld, Germany) (represented by: F. Graf von Stosch, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Bonfait BV
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annul the Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market of 2 October 2009 in Case R 340/2007-4 concerning opposition No B 871 121;
            
         
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               order the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Oetker Nahrungsmittel
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Word mark ‘Buonfatti’ for goods in Classes 29 and 30 (Application No 3 939 915)
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Bonfait BV
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: in particular, the Benelux word mark ‘Bonfait’ No 393 133 and the figurative Community trade mark ‘Bonfait’ No 648 816 for goods in Classes 29 and 30
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Rejection of the opposition
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Annulment of the decision of the Opposition Decision and refusal of the application to register
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009, (1) since there is no likelihood of confusion between the conflicting trade marks
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1)