CELEX: 62009TA0358
Language: en
Date: 2011-04-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-358/09: Judgment of the General Court of 13 April 2011 — Sociedad Agricola Requingua v OHIM — Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Toro (TORO DE PIEDRA) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark TORO DE PIEDRA — Earlier Community figurative mark D. ORIGEN TORO — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Right to be heard — Obligation to state the reasons on which a decision is based — Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009)

28.5.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 160/20
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 13 April 2011 — Sociedad Agricola Requingua v OHIM — Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Toro (TORO DE PIEDRA)
   (Case T-358/09) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark TORO DE PIEDRA - Earlier Community figurative mark D. ORIGEN TORO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Right to be heard - Obligation to state the reasons on which a decision is based - Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009)
   2011/C 160/30
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Sociedad Agricola Requingua Ltda (Santiago, Chile) (represented by: E. Vorbuchner, C. Ley and M. Heidelberg, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo and A. Folliard-Monguiral, Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Toro (Toro, Spain)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 18 June 2009 (Case R 1117/2008-2) concerning opposition proceedings between Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Toro and Sociedad Agricola Requingua Ltda.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Sociedad Agricola Requingua Ltda to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 267, 7.11.2009.