CELEX: 62009TA0346
Language: en
Date: 2012-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-346/09: Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2012 — Winzer Pharma v OHIM — Alcon (BAÑOFTAL) (Community trade marks — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community trade mark BAÑOFTAL — Earlier national word marks KAN-OPHTAL and PAN-OPHTAL — Relative grounds for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

25.8.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 258/16
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2012 — Winzer Pharma v OHIM — Alcon (BAÑOFTAL)
   (Case T-346/09) (1)
   
   (Community trade marks - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community trade mark BAÑOFTAL - Earlier national word marks KAN-OPHTAL and PAN-OPHTAL - Relative grounds for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2012/C 258/27
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Dr. Robert Winzer Pharma GmbH (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: S.Schneller, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Alcon Inc. Hünenberg, Switzerland) (represented by: M. Vidal-Quadras Trais de Bes, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 28 May 2009 (Case R 795/2008-1) relating to opposition proceedings between Dr. Robert Winzer Pharma GmbH and Alcon Inc.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 28 May 2009 (Case R 795/2008-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Dr. Robert Winzer Pharma GmbH.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Alcon Inc. to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 256, 24.10.2009.