CELEX: C2006/310/26
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-350/04 to T-352/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 19 October 2006 — Bitburger Brauerei v OHIM — Anheuser-Busch (BUD, American Bud and Anheuser Busch Bud) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for registration of the Community word mark BUD — Applications for registration of the Community figurative marks American Bud and Anheuser Busch Bud — Earlier national word and figurative marks including the term bit — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 40/94)

16.12.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 310/14
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 19 October 2006 — Bitburger Brauerei v OHIM — Anheuser-Busch (BUD, American Bud and Anheuser Busch Bud)
   (Joined Cases T-350/04 to T-352/04) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for registration of the Community word mark BUD - Applications for registration of the Community figurative marks American Bud and Anheuser Busch Bud - Earlier national word and figurative marks including the term ‘bit’ - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 40/94)
   (2006/C 310/26)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Bitburger Brauerei Th. Simon GmbH (Bitburg Germany) (represented by M. Huth-Dierig, lawyer,)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by A. Folliard-Monguiral)
   
      Other party/ to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Anheuser-Busch, Inc., (Saint Louis, Missouri, United States (represented by: A. Renck, V. von Bomhard, A. Pohlmann, D. Ohlgart and B. Goebel, lawyers,)
   Re:
   Three applications brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 22 June 2004 in cases R447/2002-2, R451/2002-2 and R453/2002-2, concerning opposition proceedings between Bitburger Brauerei Th. Simon and Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the actions;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Bitburger Brauerei Th. Simon GmbH to pay the costs
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 19,22.1.2005.