CELEX: 62007TJ0427
Language: en
Date: 2010-03-19
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 19 March 2010. # Mirto Corporación Empresarial, SL v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings -Application for Community figurative mark Mirtillino - Earlier Community word mark MIRTO - Relative grounds for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009). # Case T-427/07.

Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 19 March 2010 – Mirto Corporación Empresarial v OHIM – Maglificio Barbara
            (Mirtillino)
      (Case T-427/07)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community figurative mark Mirtillino – Earlier Community word mark MIRTO – 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)
      Community trade mark – Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark – Relative grounds for refusal – Opposition by the proprietor of an earlier identical or similar mark registered for identical or similar goods or services
         – Likelihood of confusion with the earlier mark (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 40‑42, 81)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 August 2007 (Case R 875/2006-2), relating
                  to opposition proceedings between Creaciones Mirto SA and Maglificio Barbara Srl.
               
            Information relating to the case
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               Maglificio Barbara Srl
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Figurative mark Mirtillino for goods in Classes 3, 18 and 25 – application No 3252467
            
         
               Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings:
            
            
               Creaciones Mirto, SA; the applicant following transfer of the marks at issue in the opposition proceedings
            
         
               Mark or sign cited in opposition:
            
            
               Word mark MIRTO (Community trade mark No 1653351) for goods in Classes 3, 18 and 25 and various other national word and figurative
                  marks MIRTO
               
            
         
               Decision of the Opposition Division:
            
            
               Opposition partly upheld
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Annulment of the decision under appeal and dismissal of the opposition
            
         
      Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Mirto Corporación Empresarial, SL to pay the costs.