CELEX: 62010TA0032
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-32/10: Judgment of the General Court of 9 March 2012 — Ella Valley Vineyards v OHIM — HFP (ELLA VALLEY VINEYARDS) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark ELLA VALLEY VINEYARDS — Earlier national and Community trade marks ELLE — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of association — Link between the signs — Reputation — No similarity of the signs — Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

28.4.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 126/14
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 9 March 2012 — Ella Valley Vineyards v OHIM — HFP (ELLA VALLEY VINEYARDS)
   (Case T-32/10) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark ELLA VALLEY VINEYARDS - Earlier national and Community trade marks ELLE - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of association - Link between the signs - Reputation - No similarity of the signs - Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   2012/C 126/27
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Ella Valley Vineyards (Adulam) Ltd (Jerusalem, Israel) (represented by: C. de Haas and O. Vanner, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Hachette Filipacchi Presse (HFP) (Levallois-Perret, France) (represented by: C. Moyou Joly, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 11 November 2009 (Case R 1293/2008-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Hachette Filipacchi Presse (HFP) and Ella Valley Vineyards (Adulam) Ltd.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 11 November 2009 (Case R 1293/2008-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Ella Valley Vineyards (Adulam) Ltd;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Hachette Filipacchi Presse (HFP) to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 80, 27.3.2010.