CELEX: 62009TA0324
Language: en
Date: 2011-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-324/09: Judgment of the General Court of 17 February 2011 — J & F Participações v OHIM — Plusfood Wrexham (Friboi) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark Friboi — Earlier national word mark FRIBO — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Genuine use of the earlier mark — Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009)

2.4.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 103/22
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 17 February 2011 — J & F Participações v OHIM — Plusfood Wrexham (Friboi)
   (Case T-324/09) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark Friboi - Earlier national word mark FRIBO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Genuine use of the earlier mark - Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009)
   2011/C 103/38
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: J & F Participações SA (Sorocaba, Brazil) (represented by: A. Fernández Fernández-Pacheco, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J.F. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Plusfood Wrexham Ltd (Llay, Wrexham, United Kingdom) (represented by: G. van Roeyen, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 22 April 2009 (Case R 824/2008-1), concerning opposition proceedings between Fribo Foods Ltd and Agropecuaria Friboi, Ltda.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders J & F Participações SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 256, 24.10.2009.