Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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| 18.12.2004 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 314/18 |

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JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

12 October 2004

in Case T-35/03 Aventis Cropscience S.A. v Office for Harmonisation of the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) [(1)](#ntr1-C_2004314EN.01001803-E0001)

(Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - Application for registration of Community word mark CARPO - Earlier national word mark HARPO Z - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 40/94)

(2004/C 314/47)

Language of the case: Spanish

In Case T-35/03 Aventis Cropscience S.A., established in Lyon (France), represented by Enrique Armijo Chávarri, lawyer, v Office for Harmonisation of the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: I. de Medrano Caballero and G. Schneider), the other party to the proceedings being BASF Aktiengesellschaft, established in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Germany), for the annulment of Decision R 803/2001-2 of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 18 November 2002 concerning the opposition by the proprietor of the earlier national word mark HARPO Z to registration of the trade mark CARPO, the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber), composed of J. Pirrung, President, N.J. Forwood and I. Pelikánová, Judges; Registrar: I. Natsinas, administrator, gave a judgment on 12 October 2004, in which it:

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| 1. | Dismisses the application; |

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| 2. | Orders the applicant to pay the costs. |

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