CELEX: 62010TA0278
Language: en
Date: 2012-09-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-278/10: Judgment of the General Court of 21 September 2012 — Wesergold Getränkeindustrie v OHIM — Lidl Stiftung (WESTERN GOLD) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark WESTERN GOLD — Earlier national, international and Community word marks WESERGOLD, Wesergold, and WeserGold — Relative grounds for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Distinctiveness of the earlier marks)

10.11.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 343/15
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 21 September 2012 — Wesergold Getränkeindustrie v OHIM — Lidl Stiftung (WESTERN GOLD)
   (Case T-278/10) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark WESTERN GOLD - Earlier national, international and Community word marks WESERGOLD, Wesergold, and WeserGold - Relative grounds for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Distinctiveness of the earlier marks)
   2012/C 343/23
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Wesergold Getränkeindustrie GmbH & Co. KG (Rinteln, Germany) (represented by: P. Goldenbaum, T. Melchert and I. Rohr, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: R. Pethke, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (Neckarsulm, Germany) (represented by A. Marx and M. Schaeffer, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board Board of Appeal of OHIM of 24 March 2010 (Case R 770/2009-1) concerning opposition proceedings between Wesergold Getränkeindustrie GmbH & Co. KG and Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 24 March 2010 (Case R 770/2009-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and also to pay the costs of the applicant;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 221, 14.8.2010.