CELEX: 62010TN0357
Language: en
Date: 2010-08-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-357/10: Action brought on 27 August 2010 — Kraft Foods Schweiz v OHIM — Compañía Nacional de Chocolates (CORONA)

23.10.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 288/56
            
         
      Action brought on 27 August 2010 — Kraft Foods Schweiz v OHIM — Compañía Nacional de Chocolates (CORONA)
      (Case T-357/10)
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      (2010/C 288/104)
      Language in which the application was lodged: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Kraft Foods Schweiz Holding GmbH (Zug, Switzerland) (represented by: P. Péters and T. de Haan, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Compañía Nacional de Chocolates SA (Medellín, Colombia)
      
         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 29 June 2010 in case R 696/2009-4; and
               
            
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                  Order the defendant to pay the costs of the proceedings.
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      
         Applicant for the Community trade mark: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
      
         Community trade mark concerned: The figurative mark ‘CORONA’, for goods in class 30
      
         Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The applicant
      
         Mark or sign cited: Estonian trade mark registration No 20671 of the word mark ‘KARUNA’, for goods in class 30; Latvian trade mark registration No M36592 of the word mark ‘KARUNA’, for goods in class 30; Lithuanian trade mark registration No 28143 of the word mark ‘KARŪNA’, for goods in class 30
      
         Decision of the Opposition Division: Upheld the opposition
      
         Decision of the Board of Appeal: Annulled the decision of the opposition division and rejected the opposition
      
         Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Council Regulation No 207/2009, as the Board of Appeal incorrectly excluded likelihood of confusion; infringement of Article 8(5) of Council Regulation No 207/2009, as the Board of Appeal wrongly assessed that the marks are not similar or identical.