Case T-443/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 July 2007 — El Corte Inglés SA v OHIM (PiraÑAM diseño original Juan Bolaños) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for a Community figurative mark including the word elements PiraÑAM diseño original Juan Bolaños — Earlier national word marks PIRANHA — Relative grounds for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the goods — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
Date: 2007-08-25
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment (EU), chemical product, machinery, trade-mark law

C 199/36

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

25.8.2007

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 12 July 2007 —
Annemans v Commission

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 July 2007 —
El Corte Inglés SA v OHIM (PiraÑAM diseño original Juan
Bolaños)

(Case T-411/05) (1)

(Case T-443/05) (1)

(Application for annulment — Competition — Handling of
complaints — Regulation (EC) No 773/2004 — Commission
letter sent to the complainant — Plea of inadmissibility —
capable of being
Preparatory measure — Measure not

appealed — Inadmissibility)

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Appli-
cation for a Community figurative mark including the word
elements ‘PiraÑAM diseño original Juan Bolaños’ — Earlier
national word marks PIRANHA — Relative grounds for
refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the goods
— Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(2007/C 199/68)

Language of the case: Dutch

(2007/C 199/69)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Gerolf Annemans (Antwerp, Belgium) (represented by:
initially, C. Symons, and subsequently, B. Siffert, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: A. Nijenhuis and K. Mojzesowicz, acting as Agents)

Re:

Parties

Applicant: El Corte Inglés SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by:
J. Rivas Zurdo, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. García Murillo,
Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM
intervening before the Court of First Instance: Juan Bolaños Sabri
(Torellano, Spain) (represented by: P. López Ronda and G. Marín
Raigal, lawyers)

Application for annulment of the decision supposedly contained
in the Commission's letter of 5 September 2005 in Case
COMP/39.225 relating to the complaint lodged by Gerolf Anne-
mans with the Commission under Article 7 of Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implemen-
tation of the rules on competition laid down in Articles 81 [EC]
and 82 [EC] (OJ 2003 L 1, p. 1).

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal
of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM)
of 21 September 2005 (Case R 1191/2004-1), relating to oppo-
sition proceedings between El Corte Inglés SA and Juan Bolaños
Sabri the of 21 September 2005,

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the application;

Operative part of the judgment

1. Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for
Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
(OHIM) of 21 September 2005 (Case R 1191/2004-1);

2. Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred

by El Corte Inglés SA;

2. Orders Gerolf Annemans to pay the costs.

3. Orders the intervener to bear its own costs.

(1) OJ C 36, 11.2.2006.

(1) OJ C 74, 25.3.2006.