CELEX: 62009TA0369
Language: en
Date: 2010-10-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-369/09: Judgment of the General Court of 8 September 2010 — Quinta do Portal v OHIM — Vallegre (PORTO ALEGRE) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community word mark PORTO ALEGRE — Earlier national word mark VISTA ALEGRE — Relative grounds for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

23.10.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 288/40
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 8 September 2010 — Quinta do Portal v OHIM — Vallegre (PORTO ALEGRE)
      (Case T-369/09) (1)
      
      (Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community word mark PORTO ALEGRE - Earlier national word mark VISTA ALEGRE - Relative grounds for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
      (2010/C 288/76)
      Language of the case: Portuguese
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Sociedade Quinta do Portal SA (Porto, Portugal) (represented by: B. Belchior, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Novais Gonçalves, Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Vallegre, Vinhos do Porto, SA (Sabrosa, Portugal) (represented by: P. López Ronda and G. Macias Bonilla, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 18 June 2009 (Case R 1012/2008-1) concerning invalidity proceedings between Vallegre, Vinhos do Porto, SA and Sociedade Quinta do Portal SA.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Sociedade Quinta do Portal SA to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 297, 5.12.2009.