CELEX: 62007TA0291
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-291/07: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 23 September 2009 — Viñedos y Bodegas Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe v OHIM — Byass (ALFONSO) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community word mark ALFONSO — Earlier Community and national word marks PRINCIPE ALFONSO — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) — Scope of the examination to be carried out by the Board of Appeal — Obligation to rule on the entirety of the action — Article 62(1) of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 64(1) of Regulation No 207/2009)

7.11.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 267/59
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 23 September 2009 — Viñedos y Bodegas Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe v OHIM — Byass (ALFONSO)
   (Case T-291/07) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark ALFONSO - Earlier Community and national word marks PRINCIPE ALFONSO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) - Scope of the examination to be carried out by the Board of Appeal - Obligation to rule on the entirety of the action - Article 62(1) of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 64(1) of Regulation No 207/2009)
   2009/C 267/103
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Viñedos y Bodegas Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe, SA (Cenicero, Spain) (represented by: M. Lobato García-Miján and B. Díaz de Escauriaza, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Palmero Cabezas and J. Laporta Insa, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: González Byass, SA (Cádiz, Spain)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 May 2007 (Case R 1110/2006-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Viñedos y Bodegas Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe, SA and González Byass, 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 1110/2006-2);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders OHIM to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 235, 6.10.2007.