CELEX: 62002TA0225
Language: en
Date: 2008-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-225/06, T-255/06, T-257/06 and T-309/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 December 2008 — Budějovický Budvar v OHIM — Anheuser-Busch (BUD) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Applications for Community word and figurative marks BUD — Appellations bud — Relative grounds for refusal — Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

7.2.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/27
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 December 2008 — Budějovický Budvar v OHIM — Anheuser-Busch (BUD)
   (Joined Cases T-225/06, T-255/06, T-257/06 and T-309/06) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Applications for Community word and figurative marks BUD - Appellations ‘bud’ - Relative grounds for refusal - Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2009/C 32/49)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik (Česke Budějovice, Czech Republic) (represented by: F. Fajgenbaum and C. Petsch, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the Court of First Instance: Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (Saint Louis, Missouri, United States) (represented: initially by V. von Bomhard, A. Renck, B. Goebel and A. Pohlmann, and subsequently by V. von Bomhard, A. Renck and B. Goebel, lawyers)
   Re:
   Actions brought against decisions of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 June 2006 (Case R 234/2005-2), 28 June 2006 (Cases R 241/2005-2 and R 802/2004-2) and 1 September 2006 (Case R 305/2005-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik and Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Orders the joinder of Cases T-225/06, T-255/06, T-257/06 and T-309/06 for the purposes of the judgment;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Annuls the decisions of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs (OHIM) of 14 June (Case R 234/2005-2), 28 June (Cases R 241/2005-2 and R 802/2004-2) and 1 September 2006 (Case R 305/2005-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik and Anheuser-Busch, Inc.;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay two thirds of the costs of Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders Anheuser-Busch to bear its own costs and to pay one third of the costs of Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 261, 28.10.2006.