CELEX: 62014TA0247
Language: en
Date: 2016-02-04 00:00:00
Title: Case T-247/14: Judgment of the General Court of 4 February 2016 — Meica v OHIM — Salumificio Fratelli Beretta (STICK MiniMINI Beretta) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark STICK MiniMINI Beretta — Earlier Community word mark MINI WINI — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 216/96)

21.3.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 106/32
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 4 February 2016 — Meica v OHIM — Salumificio Fratelli Beretta (STICK MiniMINI Beretta)
   (Case T-247/14) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community figurative mark STICK MiniMINI Beretta - Earlier Community word mark MINI WINI - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 216/96))
   (2016/C 106/35)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG (Edewecht, Germany) (represented by: S. Labesius, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Poch, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Salumificio Fratelli Beretta SpA (Barzanò, Italy) (represented by: G. Ghisletti, F. Braga and P. Pozzi, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 February 2014 (Case R 1159/2013-4) relating to opposition proceedings between Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG and Salumificio Fratelli Beretta SpA.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 14 February 2014 (Case R 1159/2013-4) inasmuch as it rejects the submissions made by Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG seeking a decision altering the decision of the Opposition Division in respect of the services in Class 43;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Meica Ammerländische Fleischwarenfabrik Fritz Meinen GmbH & Co. KG, the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) and Salumificio Fratelli Beretta SpA to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 235, 21.7.2014.