Case C-334/05 P: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 12 June 2007 — Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) v Shaker di L. Laudato & C. Sas, Limiñana y Botella, SL (Appeal — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 8(1)(b) — Likelihood of confusion — Application for a figurative Community trade mark with the word elements Limoncello della Costiera Amalfitana and shaker — Opposition by the proprietor of the national word mark LIMONCHELO)
Date: 2007-07-21
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, General Court (EU), appeal, fruit product, trade-mark law

21.7.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 170/5

Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 12 June 2007 —
Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade
Marks and Designs) v Shaker di L. Laudato & C. Sas,
Limiñana y Botella, SL

3. Reserves the costs.

(1) OJ C 296, 26.11.2005.

(Case C-334/05 P) (1)

(Appeal — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC)
No 40/94 — Article 8(1)(b) — Likelihood of confusion —
Application for a figurative Community trade mark with the
word elements ‘Limoncello della Costiera Amalfitana’ and
‘shaker’ — Opposition by the proprietor of the national word
mark LIMONCHELO)

(2007/C 170/07)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Appellant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: O. Montalto and
P. Bullock, Agents)

Other parties to the proceedings: Shaker di L. Laudato & C. Sas
(represented by: F. Sciaudone, avvocato), Limiñana y Botella, SL

Re:

the Court of First Instance
Appeal against the judgment of
(Third Chamber) of 15 June 2005 in Case T-7/04 Shaker di L.
Laudato & C. Sas v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)(OHIM) by which the Court annulled
decision R 993/2002-2 of
the Second Board of Appeal of
OHIM of 24 October 2003 dismissing the appeal against the
decision of the Opposition Division which refused, in part, the
registration of the figurative mark ‘Limoncello della Costiera
Amalfitana’ in opposition proceedings brought by the proprietor
of the national word mark LIMONCHELO for certain goods in
Class 33

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Sets aside the judgment of

the
European Communities of 15 June 2005, Case T-7/04 Shaker v
OHIM — Limiñana
(Limoncello della Costiera
Amalfitana shaker);

the Court of First

Instance of

y Botella

2. Refers the case back to the Court of First Instance of the European

Communities;

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 7 June 2007
(reference for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht
Köln — Germany) — Řízení Letového Provozu ČR, s.p. v
Bundesamt für Finanzen

(Case C-335/05) (1)

(Thirteenth VAT Directive — Article 2(2) — GATS — Most-
secondary
favoured-nation clause — Interpretation of
Community law in the light of international agreements
concluded by the Community)

(2007/C 170/08)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Finanzgericht Köln

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Řízení Letového Provozu ČR, s.p.

Defendant: Bundesamt für Finanzen

Re:

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Finanzgericht Köln —
Interpretation of Article 2(2) of Thirteenth Council Directive
86/560/EEC of 17 November 1986 on the harmonisation of
the laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes —
Arrangements for the refund of VAT to taxable persons not
established in Community territory (OJ 1986 L 326, p. 40) —
Possibility of making refunds of VAT to a taxable person estab-
lished in the territory of a third State which is party to the
WTO conditional upon reciprocity on the part of that State —
Compatibility with the most-favoured-nation clause provided for
in Article II(1) of the General Agreement on Trade in Services
(GATS) — Interpretation in conformity with the directive