Case T-202/03: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of  7 February 2006  — Alecansan v OHIM (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the figurative Community trade mark COMP USA — Earlier national figurative mark COMP USA — Lack of similarity of the goods and services — Rejection of the opposition — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
Date: 2006-04-08
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment (EU), computer equipment, trade-mark law

C 86/24

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

8.4.2006

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 7 February
2006 — Alecansan v OHIM

3. Orders the intervener to pay its own costs.

(Case T-202/03) (1)

(1) OJ C 184, 2.8.2003.

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Appli-
cation for the figurative Community trade mark COMP USA
— Earlier national figurative mark COMP USA — Lack of
similarity of the goods and services — Rejection of the oppo-
sition — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(2006/C 86/46)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of
31 January 2006 — Albrecht and Others v Commission

(Case T-251/03) (1)

(Health policy — Veterinary medicinal products — Products
containing benzathine benzylpenicillin — Commission deci-
sion ordering suspension of marketing authorisations —
Competence)

Applicant: Alecansan, SL (Madrid, Spain)
(represented by: M.
Baylos Morales, P. Merino Baylos, J. Arribas García, A. Veláz-
quez Ibáñez and A. Angulo Lafora, lawyers)

(2006/C 86/47)

Language of the case: English

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

Parties

Other party or parties to the proceedings before the Board of
Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance:
CompUSA Management Co. (Dallas, United States) (represented
by: P. Brownlow, Solicitor)

Action

brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of
OHIM of 24 March 2003 (Case R 711/2002-1) relating to the
opposition proceedings between Alecansan, SL, and CompUSA
Management Co.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the applicant to pay its own costs and those of the Office
(Trade Marks and

for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
Designs);

Applicants: Albert Albrecht GmbH & Co. KG,
(Aulendorf,
Germany), AniMedica GmbH (Seden-Bösensell, Germany), Ceva
Tiergensundheit GmbH (Düsseldorf, Germany), Fatro SpA
(Bologna, Italy), Laboratorios Syva, SA (León, Spain), Labora-
torios Virbac, SA (Barcelona, Spain), Química Farmacéutica
Bayer, SA (Barcelona), Univete Técnica Pecuaria Comercio
Industria, Lda (Lisbon, Portugal), Vétoquinol Especialidades
Veterinarias, SA (Madrid, Spain), Virbac SA (Carros, France),
(represented by: D. Waelbroeck, U. Zinsmeister and N. Rampal,
lawyers)

Defendant(s): Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: H. Støvlbæk and M. Shotter, Agents)

Intervener(s) in support of the applicant(s): French Republic (repre-
sented by: G. de Bergues and R. Loosli-Surrans, Agents)

Application for

annulment of Commission Decision C(2003) 1404 of 22 April
2003 ordering suspension of the marketing authorisations of
veterinary medicinal products containing benzathine benzylpe-
nicillin intended to be administered by intramuscular and/or
subcutaneous means to food-producing animals,