CELEX: 62009TA0138
Language: en
Date: 2010-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-138/09: Judgment of the General Court of 9 June 2010 — Muñoz Arraiza v OHIM — Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja (RIOJAVINA) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark RIOJAVINA — Earlier Community collective figurative mark RIOJA — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

31.7.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/38
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 9 June 2010 — Muñoz Arraiza v OHIM — Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja (RIOJAVINA)
   (Case T-138/09) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark RIOJAVINA - Earlier Community collective figurative mark RIOJA - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   2010/C 209/57
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Félix Muñoz Arraiza (Logroño, Spain) (represented by: J. Grimau Muñoz and J. Villamor Muguerza, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (represented by: J.F. Crespo Carrillo, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the Court: Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja (Logroño) (represented by: J.I. Martínez De Torre, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 January 2009 (Case R 721/2008-2) concerning opposition proceedings between the Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja and Félix Muñoz Arraiza.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the application;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Félix Muñoz Arraiza to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 153, 4.7.2009.