CELEX: C2007/042/44
Language: en
Date: 2007-02-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-372/06: Action brought on 11 December 2006 — Bomba Energia Getränke v OHIM — Eckes-Granini (Bomba)

24.2.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 42/25
            
         Action brought on 11 December 2006 — Bomba Energia Getränke v OHIM — Eckes-Granini (Bomba)
   (Case T-372/06)
   (2007/C 42/44)
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Bomba Energia Getränke Vertriebs GmbH (Wiener Neudorf, Austria) (represented by: A. Kockläuner, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Eckes-Granini GmbH & Co. KG (Nieder-Olm, Germany)
   Form of order sought
   
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               annul in its entirety the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 3 October 2006 in Appeal Case R 184/2005-2;
            
         
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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 word mark ‘Bomba’ for goods in Classes 32 and 33 (Application No 558 874).
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Eckes-Granini GmbH & Co. KG.
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Various word and figurative marks ‘la bamba’, including the German word mark ‘la bamba’ for goods in Classes 29, 32 and 33.
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Rejection of the application.
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal.
   
      Pleas in law: The contested decision infringes Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (1), in as much as there is no likelihood of confusion between the opposing marks.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1).