Case T-120/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 November 2006 — Peróxidos Orgánicos v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Organic peroxides — Fines — Article 81 EC — Regulation (EEC) No 2988/74 — Limitation period — Duration of the infringement — Apportionment of the burden of proof — Equal treatment)
Date: 2006-12-30
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, action for annulment (EU), chemical industry, fine, inter-company cooperation, organic chemical, oxide, restriction on competition

30.12.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 326/55

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 November
2006 — Lichtwer Pharma AG v OHIM — Laboratoire
Lafon (Lyco-A)

(Case T-32/04) (1)

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Appli-
cation for Community word mark Lyco-A — Admissibility of
the appeal before the Board of Appeal — Cost of proceedings
— Apportionment)

(2006/C 326/117)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Lichtwer Pharma AG (Berlin, Germany) (represented
by: H. Kunz-Hallstein and R. Kunz-Hallstein, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
J. Weberndörfer,
Agent)

(represented by:

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM:
Laboratoire L. Lafon SA (Maisons-Alfort, France)

Re:

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 November
2006 — Peróxidos Orgánicos v Commission

(Case T-120/04) (1)

(Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
— Organic peroxides — Fines — Article 81 EC — Regu-
lation (EEC) No 2988/74 — Limitation period — Duration of
the infringement — Apportionment of the burden of proof —
Equal treatment)

(2006/C 326/118)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Peróxidos Orgánicos, SA (San Cugat del Vallés, Spain)
(represented by: A. Creus Carreras and B. Uriarte Valiente,
lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: A. Bouquet and F. Castillo de la Torre, Agents)

Re:

for

annulment

Application
Commission Decision
2005/349/EC of 10 December 2003 relating to a proceeding
under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA
Agreement (Case COMP/E-2/37.857 — Organic Peroxides) (OJ
2005 L 110, p. 44).

of

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the applicant to pay the costs.

Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of
Appeal of OHIM of 13 November 2003 (Case R 1007/2002-4)
insofar as that decision rules on the apportionment of the costs
incurred in the opposition and appeal proceedings

(1) OJ C 118, 30.4.2004.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Annuls paragraph 2 of the operative part of the decision of 13
November 2003 of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for
Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
(OHIM) (Case R 1007/2002-4);

2. Orders OHIM to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 106, 30.4.2004.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 November
2006 — Jabones Pardo v OHIM — Quimi Romar (YUKI)

(Case T-278/04) (1)

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Earlier
national word mark YUPI — Application for the Community
word mark YUKI — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood
of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94
— Findings of OHIM — Admissibility)

(2006/C 326/119)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant:
initially J. Astiz Suárez, then A. Tarí Lázaro, lawyers)

Jabones Pardo, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: