Language of document :

Order of the Court of First Instance of 12 June 2007 - Budějovický Budvar v OHIM - Anheuser-Busch (BUD)

(Joined Cases T 60/04 to T 64/04) 1

(Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Applications for a Community word mark BUD - Appellation of origin registered under the Lisbon Agreement - Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Rejection of the opposition)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik, (České Budějovice, Czech Republic) (represented by: F. Fajgenbaum, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral and I. de Medrano Caballero, Agents)

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: initially V. von Bomhard, A. Renck, A. Pohlmann, D. Ohlgart and B. Goebel, and subsequently V. von Bomhard, A. Renck, D. Ohlgart and B. Goebel, lawyers)

Re:

Action brought against five decisions of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 3 December 2003 (Cases R 107/2003-2, R 111/2003-2, R 114/2003-2, R 115/2003-2 and R 122/2003-2), concerning opposition proceedings between Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik and Anheuser-Busch, Inc.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Dismisses the applications in Joined Cases T-60/04 to T-64/04;

Orders Budějovický Budvar, národní podnik to pay the costs.

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1 - OJ C 94, 17.4.2004.