Case T-330/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 June 2008 — Novartis v OHIM (BLUE SOFT) (Community trade mark — Application for Community word mark BLUE SOFT — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive nature — Lack of distinctive nature — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation No 40/94)
Date: 2008-06-10
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment (EU), trade-mark law

19.7.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 183/19

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of
5 June 2008 — Internationaler Hilfsfonds v Commission

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Schneider, acting
as Agent)

(Case T-141/05) (1)

(Action for annulment — Access to documents — Regulation
(EC) No 1049/2001 — Partial refusal — Non-actionable
measure — Merely confirmatory measure — Inadmissibility)

Re:

(2008/C 183/38)

Language of the case: German

Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal
of OHIM of 14 September 2006 (Case R 270/2006-1)
concerning an application for registration of the word mark
BLUE SOFT as a Community trade mark

Parties

Applicant:
(represented by: H. Kaltenecker, lawyer)

Internationaler Hilfsfonds eV (Rosbach, Germany)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: P. Costa de Oliveira, S. Fries and C. Ladenburger,
Agents)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders Novartis AG to pay the costs.

Re:

Application for annulment of the so-called decision contained
in the letter of the Commission of 14 February 2005 refusing
the applicant access
from the file
regarding the contract LIEN 97-2011.

to certain documents

(1) OJ C 326, 31.12.2006.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action as inadmissible;

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 June 2008 —
Gabel Industria Tessile SpA v OHIM — Creaciones Garel
(GABEL)

2. Orders Internationaler Hilfsfonds to pay its own costs and those of

the Commission.

(Case T-85/07) (1)

(1) OJ C 143 of 11.6.2005.

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Appli-
cation for the Community word mark GABEL — Earlier Com-
munity figurative mark GAREL — Partial refusal of registra-
tion — Scope of the examination to be carried out by the
Board of Appeal — Obligation to rule on the entirety of the
action — Article 62(1) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 June 2008 —
Novartis v OHIM (BLUE SOFT)

(Case T-330/06) (1)

(Community trade mark — Application for Community
word mark BLUE SOFT — Absolute grounds for refusal —
distinctive nature —
Descriptive nature — Lack of

Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation No 40/94)

Parties

(2008/C 183/40)

Language of the case: Italian

(2008/C 183/39)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Gabel Industria Tessile SpA (Rovellasca, Italy) (repre-
sented by: A. Petruzzelli, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: O. Montalto and L.
Rampini, Agents)

Applicant: Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland) (represented by: N.
Hebeis, lawyer)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM:
Creaciones Garel, SA. (Logroño, Spain)