Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Txakoli de Álava, Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Txakoli de Bizkaia and Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Txakoli de Getaria v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (T-341/09)
law://eu/cjeu/2009/t-341-09/para_33@2026-11-13
Key facts
Court
General Court · Fourth Chamber
Case
T-341/09 · ECLI:EU:T:2011:220
Decided
17 May 2011
Procedure
Action for annulment
Applicants
Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Txakoli de Álava; Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Txakoli de Bizkaia; Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Txakoli de Getaria
Defendant
Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)
33In the light of these factors, it must be acknowledged that even if the regulation associates the words ‘chacolí’ or ‘txakolina’, or yet the word ‘txakoli’, with wines with designations of origin for which the applicants are the regulatory boards, the wine regulation relied on by the applicants regards those words as merely an indication of the characteristic of wines and not as an indication of their geographical provenance, despite the link supposedly existing between those words, ‘txakoli’ in particular, and the Basque Country.