CELEX: 62012CA0591
Language: en
Date: 2013-05-08 00:00:00
Title: Case C-591/12 P: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 8 May 2014  — Bimbo SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Panrico SA (Appeal — Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for registration of the word mark BIMBO DOUGHNUTS — Earlier Spanish word mark DOGHNUTS — Relative grounds for refusal — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 8(1)(b) — Global assessment of the likelihood of confusion — Independent distinctive role of one element of a composite word mark)

30.6.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 202/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 8 May 2014 — Bimbo SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Panrico SA
   (Case C-591/12 P) (1)
   
   ((Appeal - Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for registration of the word mark BIMBO DOUGHNUTS - Earlier Spanish word mark DOGHNUTS - Relative grounds for refusal - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 8(1)(b) - Global assessment of the likelihood of confusion - Independent distinctive role of one element of a composite word mark))
   2014/C 202/06
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Bimbo SA (represented by: C. Prat, abogado, and R. Ciullo, Barrister)
   
      Other parties to the proceedings: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral and J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agents), Panrico SA (represented by: D. Pellisé Urquiza, abogado)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 10 October 2012 in Case T-569/10 Bimbo SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) by which the General Court dismissed an action for annulment brought by the applicant for the word mark ‘BIMBO DOUGHNUTS’ for goods in Class 30 against the decision R 838/2009-4 of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) of 7 October 2010 dismissing the action against the decision of the Opposition Division refusing registration of that mark in opposition proceedings brought by the proprietor of the international and national word marks ‘DONUT’, ‘DOGHNUTS’ and ‘DONUTS’ and the international and national figurative marks containing the word ‘donuts’ for goods in Class 30 — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Likelihood of confusion
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Bimbo SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 55, 23.2.2013.