CELEX: 62014TA0359
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-359/14: Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2015 — Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia v OHIM — Accelerate (COLOMBIANO COFFEE HOUSE) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community figurative mark COLOMBIANO COFFEE HOUSE — Earlier protected geographical indication Café de Colombia — Articles 13 and 14 of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

9.11.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 371/24
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2015 — Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia v OHIM — Accelerate (COLOMBIANO COFFEE HOUSE)
   (Case T-359/14) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community figurative mark COLOMBIANO COFFEE HOUSE - Earlier protected geographical indication Café de Colombia - Articles 13 and 14 of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 371/27)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia) (represented by: A. Pomares Caballero and M. Pomares Caballero, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: Ó. Mondéjar Ortuño, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Accelerate s.a.l. (Beirut, Lebanon)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 27 March 2014 (Case R 1200/2013-5) relating to invalidity proceedings between the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia and Accelerate s.a.l.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 27 March 2014 (Case R 1200/2013-5) in so far as it rejected the application for a declaration of invalidity;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 253, 4.8.2014.