Judgment of the General Court of 17 December 2009 — Notartel v OHIM — SAT.1 (R.U.N.)

(Case T-490/07) (1)

(Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark R.U.N. - Earlier Community and national word marks ‘ran’ - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) - Obligation to state reasons - Article 73 of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009) - Partial refusal of registration)

2010/C 37/45

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant: Notartel SpA — Società informatica del Notariato (Rome, Italy) (represented by: M. Bosshard and M. Balestriero, lawyers)

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

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the General Court: SAT.1 SatellitenFernsehen GmbH (Berlin, Germany)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 22 October 2007 (Case R 1267/2006-4) concerning opposition proceedings between SAT.1 SatellitenFernsehen GmbH and Notartel SpA — Società informatica del Notariato

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

(1)  OJ C 64, 8.3.2008.