CELEX: 62007TA0290
Language: en
Date: 2008-12-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-290/07: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 December 2008 — MIP Metro v OHIM — Metronia (METRONIA) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative trade mark METRONIA — Earlier national figurative trade mark METRO — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

7.2.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/31
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 December 2008 — MIP Metro v OHIM — Metronia (METRONIA)
   (Case T-290/07) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative trade mark METRONIA - Earlier national figurative trade mark METRO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2009/C 32/58)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: MIP Metro Group Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG (Düsseldorf, Germany) (represented by: J.-C. Plate, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the Court of First Instance: Metronia, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J. Riera Blanco, lawyer)
   Re:
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 May 2007 (Case R 1315/2006-2), relating to opposition proceedings between MIP Metro Group Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG and Metronia, SA.
   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 29 May 2007 (Case R 1315/2006-2);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by MIP Metro Group Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Metronia SA to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 235, 6.10.2007.