CELEX: 62007TA0485
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-485/07: Judgment of the General Court of 14 September 2011 — Olive Line International v OHIM — Knopf (O-live) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark O-live — Earlier national trade name Olive line — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) — Right to prohibit use of a subsequent mark — Likelihood of confusion — Article 7 of the Spanish Trade Mark Law and Article 8(1) of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 8(1) of Regulation No 207/2009))

22.10.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 311/35
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 September 2011 — Olive Line International v OHIM — Knopf (O-live)
   (Case T-485/07) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark O-live - Earlier national trade name Olive line - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) - Right to prohibit use of a subsequent mark - Likelihood of confusion - Article 7 of the Spanish Trade Mark Law and Article 8(1) of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 8(1) of Regulation No 207/2009))
   2011/C 311/62
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Olive Line International, SL (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: P. Koch Moreno, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Schäffner and B. Schmidt, agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Reinhard Knopf (Malsch, Germany) (represented by: W. Weber, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 26 September 2007 (Case R 1478/2006-2) in opposition proceedings between Olive Line International, SL, and Mr Reinhard Knopf.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 26 September 2007 (Case R 1478/2006-2);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders OHIM to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               orders Mr Reinhard Knopf to bear his own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 51, 23.2.2008