Case T-79/07: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 26 June 2008 — SHS Polar Sistemas Informáticos v OHIM — Polaris Software Lab (POLARIS) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community figurative mark POLARIS — Earlier Community word mark POLAR — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
Date: 2008-06-26
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment, software, trade-mark law

2.8.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 197/23

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 26 June 2008 —
SHS Polar Sistemas Informáticos v OHIM — Polaris
Software Lab (POLARIS)

Other party to the proceedings: Commission of
the European
Communities (represented by: C. Berardis-Kayser and D. Martin,
Agents, assisted by B. Wägenbauer, lawyer)

(Case T-79/07) (1)

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Appli-
cation for the Community figurative mark POLARIS —
Earlier Community word mark POLAR — Relative ground for
refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of
Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

Re:

the judgment of

Appeal against
the European Union Civil
Service Tribunal (Second Chamber) in Case F-30/05 Sundholm v
Commission, not yet published in the ECR, seeking to have that
judgment set aside.

(2008/C 197/39)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the appeal;

Applicant: SHS Polar Sistemas Informáticos SL (Madrid, Spain)
(represented by: C. Hernández Hernández, lawyer)

2. Orders Asa Sundholm to bear her own costs and those incurred by

the Commission in the present proceedings.

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
Folliard-
(Trade Marks
Monguiral, Agent)

(represented by: A.

and Designs)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM
intervening before the Court of First Instance: Polaris Software Lab
Ltd (Chennai, India)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of
Appeal of OHIM of 8 January 2007 (Case R 658/2006-2)
relating to opposition proceedings between SHS Polar Sistemas
Informáticos SL and Polaris Software Lab Ltd.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the application;

2. Orders SHS Polar Sistemas Informáticos SL to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 95, 28.4.2007.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 June 2008 —
Sundholm v Commission

(Case T-164/07 P) (1)

(Appeal — Staff case — Officials — Career development
report — 2003 appraisal procedure — Rights of the defence
— Appeal inadmissible — Appeal unfounded)

(2008/C 197/40)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Appellant: Asa Sundholm (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: S.
Orlandi, A. Coolen, J.-N. Louis and E. Marchal, lawyers)

(1) OJ C 155, 7.7.2007.

Order of the Court of First Instance of 11 June 2008 —
European Association of Im- and Exporters of Birds and
live Animals and Others v Commission

(Case T-209/06) (1)

(Action for annulment — Admissibility — Fourth paragraph
of Article 230 EC — Natural and legal persons — Associa-
tions — Decision 2006/522/EC — Individual concern —
Animal health — Protection measures in relation to avian
influenza)

(2008/C 197/41)

Language of the case: Dutch

Parties

Applicants: European Association of Im- and Exporters of Birds
and live Animals (West Maas en Waal, Netherlands); Vereniging
van Im- en Exporteurs van Vogels en Hobbydieren (West Maas
en Waal, Netherlands); Willem Plomp, trading as Plomps Vogel-
handel (Woerden, Netherlands); and Marinus Borgstein, trading
as Borgstein Birds & Zoofood Trading (West Maas en Waal,
Netherlands) (represented by: J. Wouters, lawyer)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: F. Erlbacher and M. van Heezik, Agents)

Re:

for
of

annulment
July
25

Commission Decision
Application
2006/522/EC
amending Decisions
2005/759/EC and 2005/760/EC as regards certain protection
measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza and
movements of certain live birds into the Community (OJ 2006
L 205, p. 28).

of
2006