Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2015 — Perfetti Van Melle v OHIM (DAISY and MARGARITAS)

(Joined Cases T-381/13 and T-382/13) ¹

(Community trade mark — Application for Community word marks DAISY and MARGARITAS — Absolute grounds for refusal — Partial refusal to register — No distinctive character — Distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant: Perfetti Van Melle SpA (Lainate, Italy) (represented by: P. Testa, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: L. Rampini, Agent)

Re:

Actions brought against two decisions of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 10 April 2013 (Cases R 427/2012-1 and R 430/2012-1), concerning applications for registration of the word sign DAISY and the word sign MARGARITAS as Community trade marks.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.    Annuls the two decisions of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) of 10 April 2013 (Cases R 427/2012-1 and R 430/2012-1), in so far as they rejected the applications for registration of the word sign DAISY and the word sign MARGARITAS as Community trade marks in respect of the following goods: ‘confectionery, pastries, sweets, soft caramels, marshmallows, caramels, chewing gum, gelatine (confectionery), liquorice, lollipops, toffee, pastilles, sugar, chocolate, cocoa’;

2.    Orders OHIM to pay the costs.

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¹     OJ C 274, 21.9.2013.