CELEX: 62013TA0381
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-381/13 and T-382/13: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2015 — Perfetti Van Melle v OHIM (DAISY and MARGARITAS) (Community trade mark — Application for Community word marks DAISY and MARGARITAS — Absolute grounds for refusal — Partial refusal to register — No distinctive character — Distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

8.2.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 48/45
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2015 — Perfetti Van Melle v OHIM (DAISY and MARGARITAS)
   (Joined Cases T-381/13 and T-382/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Application for Community word marks DAISY and MARGARITAS - Absolute grounds for refusal - Partial refusal to register - No distinctive character - Distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 048/50)
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Perfetti Van Melle SpA (Lainate, Italy) (represented by: P. Testa, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: L. Rampini, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Actions brought against two decisions of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 10 April 2013 (Cases R 427/2012-1 and R 430/2012-1), concerning applications for registration of the word sign DAISY and the word sign MARGARITAS as Community trade marks.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the two decisions of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) of 10 April 2013 (Cases R 427/2012-1 and R 430/2012-1), in so far as they rejected the applications for registration of the word sign DAISY and the word sign MARGARITAS as Community trade marks in respect of the following goods: ‘confectionery, pastries, sweets, soft caramels, marshmallows, caramels, chewing gum, gelatine (confectionery), liquorice, lollipops, toffee, pastilles, sugar, chocolate, cocoa’;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 274, 21.9.2013.