CELEX: 62010TN0534
Language: en
Date: 2010-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-534/10: Action brought on 22 November 2010 — Organismos Kypriakis Galaktokomikis Viomichanias v OHIM — Garmo (HELLIM)

29.1.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 30/45
            
         Action brought on 22 November 2010 — Organismos Kypriakis Galaktokomikis Viomichanias v OHIM — Garmo (HELLIM)
   (Case T-534/10)
   ()
   2011/C 30/81
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Organismos Kypriakis Galaktokomikis Viomichanias (Lefkosia, Cyprus) (represented by: C. Milbradt and H. Van Volxem, 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: Garmo AG (Stuttgart, Germany)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annul the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 20 September 2010 in Case R 794/2010-4;
            
         
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               Order the defendant to pay the costs, including the costs incurred in the appeal proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Garmo AG
   
      Community trade mark concerned: the word mark ‘HELLIM’ for goods in Class 29
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: the applicant
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: the collective word mark ‘HALLOUMI’ for goods in Class 29
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: rejection of the opposition
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: dismissal of the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (1), as the marks and goods at issue are similar and there is a likelihood of confusion between the marks, and infringement of Article 63(2) of Regulation No 207/2009 as the applicant should have been able to rely on having the opportunity to respond to the observations of the respondent in the appeal proceedings before OHIM
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1).