CELEX: C2004/239/39
Language: en
Date: 2004-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 8 July 2004 in Case T-203/02: The Sunrider Corp. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Earlier word mark VITAFRUT — Application for Community word mark VITAFRUIT — Genuine use of the earlier trade mark — Similarity of products — Article 8(1)(b), Article 15 and Article 43(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

25.9.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 239/19
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   
   of 8 July 2004
   in Case T-203/02: The Sunrider Corp. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Earlier word mark VITAFRUT - Application for Community word mark VITAFRUIT - Genuine use of the earlier trade mark - Similarity of products - Article 8(1)(b), Article 15 and Article 43(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2004/C 239/39)
   Language of the case: English
   In Case T-203/02: The Sunrider Corp., established in Torrance, California (United States), represented by A. Kockläuner, lawyer, against Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agent: S. Laitinen), the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM being: Juan Espadafor Caba, resident in Granada (Spain) — action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 8 April 2002 (Case R 1046/2000-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Juan Espadafor Caba and The Sunrider Corp — the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber), composed of J. Pirrung, President, A.W.H. Meij and N.J. Forwood, Judges; M. J. Plingers, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 8 July 2004 in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 233 of 28.9.2002.