CELEX: C2006/331/67
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-81/03, T-82/03 and T-103/03: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 December 2006 — Mast-Jägermeister v OHIM — Licorera Zacapaneca (VENADO with frame) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Applications for Community figurative marks VENADO with frame, VENADO and VENADO ESPECIAL — Earlier Community figurative marks representing a deer's head facing forward in a circle — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

30.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 331/30
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 December 2006 — Mast-Jägermeister v OHIM — Licorera Zacapaneca (VENADO with frame)
   (Joined Cases T-81/03, T-82/03 and T-103/03) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Applications for Community figurative marks VENADO with frame, VENADO and VENADO ESPECIAL - Earlier Community figurative marks representing a deer's head facing forward in a circle - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2006/C 331/67)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Mast-Jägermeister AG (Wolfenbüttel, Germany) (represented by: C. Drzymalla, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. García Murillo, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Licorera Zacapaneca SA (Santa Cruz, Guatemala) (represented by: L. Corno Caparrós and B. Uriarte Valiente, lawyers)
   Re:
   Three actions brought against the decisions of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 19 December 2002 (Case R 412/2002-1 and Case R 382/2002-1) and 14 January 2003 (Case R 407/2002-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Licorera Zacapaneca SA and Mast-Jägermeister AG.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decisions of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 19 December 2002 (Case R 412/2002-1 and Case R 382/2002-1) and of 14 January 2003 (Case R 407/2002-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) to pay the costs incurred by the applicant;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the intervener to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 112, 10.5.2003.