CELEX: 62007TN0430
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-430/07: Action brought on 23 November 2007 — Bodegas Montebello v OHIM — Montebello (MONTEBELLO RHUM AGRICOLE)

26.1.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/48
            
         Action brought on 23 November 2007 — Bodegas Montebello v OHIM — Montebello (MONTEBELLO RHUM AGRICOLE)
   (Case T-430/07)
   (2008/C 22/91)
   Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Bodegas Montebello, S.A. (Montilla, Spain) (represented by: T. Andrade Boué, M.I. Lehmann Novo, and A. Hernández Lehmann, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Montebello (limited company) (Guadalupe, France)
   Form of order sought
   
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               annulment of OHIM's decision of 7 September 2007 in Case R 223/2007-2;
            
         
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               rejection of Community trade mark No 2.666.386;
            
         
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               order OHIM to pay the costs including those of the intervener.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Montebello (limited company)
   
      Community trade mark concerned: figurative mark ‘MONTEBELLO Rhum Agricole’ (application No 2.266.386) for goods in Class 33 (alcoholic beverages, except beers).
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: the applicant.
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Spanish word mark ‘MONTEBELLO’ (No 1.148.196) for goods in Class 33.
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: opposition upheld.
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: decision of the Opposition Division upheld and annulled.
   
      Pleas in law: Misapplication of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark.