CELEX: 62008TA0430
Language: en
Date: 2010-07-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-430/08: Judgment of the General Court of 9 July 2010 — Grain Millers v OHIM — Grain Millers (GRAIN MILLERS) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark GRAIN MILLERS — Earlier national business name Grain Millers and its figurative representation — Partial refusal to register — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

28.8.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 234/34
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 9 July 2010 — Grain Millers v OHIM — Grain Millers (GRAIN MILLERS)
   (Case T-430/08) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark GRAIN MILLERS - Earlier national business name Grain Millers and its figurative representation - Partial refusal to register - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   2010/C 234/59
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Grain Millers, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States) (represented by: L.-E. Ström, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the Court: Grain Millers GmbH & Co. KG (Bremen, Germany) (R. Böckenholt, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 23 July 2008 (Case R 478/2007-2), concerning opposition proceedings between Grain Millers GmbH & Co. KG and Grain Millers, Inc.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Grain Millers, Inc. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 313, 6.12.2008.