CELEX: 62013TA0605
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-605/13: Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2014 — Alma-The Soul of Italian Wine v OHIM — Miguel Torres (SOTTO IL SOLE ITALIANO SOTTO il SOLE) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark SOTTO IL SOLE ITALIANO SOTTO il SOLE — Earlier Community word mark VIÑA SOL — Relative ground for refusal — Article 75 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Duty to state reasons)

10.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 395/46
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2014 — Alma-The Soul of Italian Wine v OHIM — Miguel Torres (SOTTO IL SOLE ITALIANO SOTTO il SOLE)
      (Case T-605/13) (1)
      
      ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark SOTTO IL SOLE ITALIANO SOTTO il SOLE - Earlier Community word mark VIÑA SOL - Relative ground for refusal - Article 75 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Duty to state reasons))
      (2014/C 395/57)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Alma-The Soul of Italian Wine LLLP (Bal Harbor, Florida, United States) (represented by: F. Terrano, 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, intervener before the General Court: Miguel Torres, SA (Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain) (represented by: J. Güell Serra, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 10 September 2013 (Case R 18/2013-2), concerning opposition proceedings between Miguel Torres, SA, and Alma-The Soul of Italian Wine LLLP.
      
         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 10 September 2013 (Case R 18/2013-2);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Alma-The Soul of Italian Wine LLLP;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Miguel Torres, SA, to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 24, 25.1.2014.