Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 28 June 2011.

Dr. August Oetker Nahrungsmittel KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).

Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark ‘Buonfatti’ - Earlier Benelux word mark Bonfait - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009.

Case T-471/09.


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
22/07/2011 Oetker Nahrungsmittel v OHMI - Bonfait (Buonfatti)
Judgment
ECLI:EU:T:2011:307
28/06/2011 Oetker Nahrungsmittel v OHMI - Bonfait (Buonfatti)
Judgment (Information)
ECLI:EU:T:2011:307
28/06/2011 Oetker Nahrungsmittel v OHMI - Bonfait (Buonfatti)
Application (OJ)
30/01/2010 Oetker Nahrungsmittel v OHMI - Bonfait (Buonfatti)
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Reports of Cases

2011 II-00185*

Pub somm

Subject-matter

Community trade mark – Action brought by the applicant for word mark ‘Buonfatti’, for goods in Classes 29 and 30, for the annulment of Decision R 340/2007-4 of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) of 2 October 2009 annulling the decision of the Opposition Division to refuse the opposition lodged by the proprietor of the national word mark and the figurative Community trade mark ‘Bonfait’, for goods in Classes 29 and 30.

Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.03 European Union trade mark
      4.11.03.02 Relative grounds for refusal
        4.11.03.02.07 Signs examined
          4.11.03.02.07.02 Likelihood of confusion with an earlier mark
            4.11.03.02.07.02.01 Word marks applied for


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

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Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 27/11/2009

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

28/06/2011


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 24 from 30.01.2010, p.63

Judgment: OJ C 232 from 06.08.2011, p.24

Name of the parties

Oetker Nahrungsmittel v OHMI - Bonfait (Buonfatti)

Notes on Academic Writings

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Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Trade marks

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

  • Actions for annulment : dismissal on substantive grounds

Formation of the Court

première chambre (Tribunal)

Judge-Rapporteur

Frimodt Nielsen

Advocate General

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Language(s) of the Case

  • German

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