CELEX: 62003TA0389
Language: en
Date: 2008-04-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-389/03: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 17 April 2008 — Dainichiseika Colour & Chemicals Mfg. v OHIM (Representation of a pelican) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for a figurative Community trade mark depicting a pelican — Earlier Community or national figurative trade mark Pelikan — Relative grounds for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

24.5.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 128/29
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 17 April 2008 — Dainichiseika Colour & Chemicals Mfg. v OHIM (Representation of a pelican)
   (Case T-389/03) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for a figurative Community trade mark depicting a pelican - Earlier Community or national figurative trade mark Pelikan - Relative grounds for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2008/C 128/63)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Dainichiseika Colour & Chemicals Mfg. Co. Ltd (Tokyo, Japan) (represented by: J. Hofmann and B. Linstow, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Laporta Insa, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Pelikan Vertriebsgessellschaft mbH & Co.KG (Hanover, Germany) (represented by: A. Renck, V. von Bomhard and A. Pohlmann, and subsequently by A. Renck, V. von Bomhard and T. Dolde, lawyers)
   Re:
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Chamber of the Board of Appeal of OHIM of 18 September 2003 (Case R 191/2002-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Pelikan Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG and Dainichiseika Colour & Chemicals Mfg. Co. Ltd.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Dainichiseika Colour & Chemicals Mfg. Co. Ltd to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 21, 21.1.2004.