Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 February 2005 in Case T-296/02 Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Community trade mark — Opposition — Likelihood of confusion — Application for Community word mark LINDENHOF — Earlier word and figurative mark LINDERHOF — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
Date: 2005-04-16
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment (EU), aerated drink, mineral water, non-alcoholic beverage, sparkling wine, trade-mark law

C 93/26

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

16.4.2005

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 15 February 2005

of 1 February 2005

in Case T-296/02 Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG v Office for
Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
Designs) (OHIM) (1)

in Case T-57/03 Société provençale d'achat et de gestion
(SPAG) SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal
Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (1)

(Community trade mark — Opposition — Likelihood of
confusion — Application for Community word mark
LINDENHOF — Earlier word
figurative mark
LINDERHOF — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No
40/94)

and

(Community mark — Opposition proceedings — Application
for Community word mark HOOLIGAN — Earlier word
marks OLLY GAN — Matters of fact or of law outside
OHIM's jurisdiction — Admissibility — Likelihood of confu-
sion)

(2005/C 93/51)

(Language of the case: German)

(2005/C 93/52)

(Language of the case: German)

In Case T-296/02: Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG, established in Neck-
lawyer, against
arsulm (Germany), represented by P. Groß,
Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks
and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: A. von Mühlendahl, B. Müller
and G. Schneider), the other party to the proceedings before
the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the Court of
First Instance, being REWE-Zentral AG, established in Cologne
(Germany), represented by M. Kinkeldey,
lawyer — action
against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM of
17 July 2002 (Case R 0036/2002-3), relating to opposition
proceedings between Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG and REWE-Zentral
AG — the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber), composed
of J. Pirrung, President, A.W.H. Meij and N.J. Forwood, Judges;
I. Natsinas, Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment
on 15 February 2005, in which it:

In Case T-57/03: Société provençale d'achat et de gestion
(SPAG) SA, established in Marseille (France), represented by
lawyer, with an address for service in Luxem-
K. Manhaeve,
bourg, against Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: U. Pfleghar and
G. Schneider), the other parties to the proceedings before the
OHIM Board of Appeal, intervening before the Court of First
Instance, being Frank Dann and Andreas Backer, residing in
Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany), represented by P. Baronikians,
lawyer — action brought against the decision of 5 December
2002 of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM (Case R 1072/
2000-2), relating to opposition proceedings concerning the
marks HOOLIGAN and OLLY GAN — the Court of First
Instance (Second Chamber), composed of J. Pirrung, President,
N.J. Forwood and S. Papasavvas, Judges; J. Palacio González,
Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment
on 1 February 2005, in which it:

1. Dismisses the action;

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the applicant to pay the costs.

2. Orders the applicant to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 289, 23.11.2002.

(1) OJ C 112 of 10.5.2003.