CELEX: C2006/108/27
Language: en
Date: 2006-05-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-322/03: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of  16 March 2006  — Telefon & Buch v OHIM (Community trade mark — Admissibility of the action — Unforeseeable circumstances — Application for a declaration of invalidity — Article 51(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Word mark WEISSE SEITEN — Absolute grounds for refusal — Article 7(1)(b) to (d) of Regulation No 40/94)

6.5.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 108/17
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 March 2006 — Telefon & Buch v OHIM
   (Case T-322/03) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Admissibility of the action - Unforeseeable circumstances - Application for a declaration of invalidity - Article 51(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Word mark WEISSE SEITEN - Absolute grounds for refusal - Article 7(1)(b) to (d) of Regulation No 40/94)
   (2006/C 108/27)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties:
   
      Applicant: Telefon & Buch Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (Salzburg, Austria) (represented by: H. Zeiner and M. Baldares del Barco, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G.Schneider, Agent)
   
      Other party or parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the Court of First Instance: Herold Business Data GmbH & Co.KG (Mödling, Austria) (represented by: A. Lensing-Kramer, C. von Nussbaum and U.Reese, lawyers)
   Action
   brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 19 June 2003 (Joined Cases R 580/2001-1 and R 592/2001-1) relating to invalidity proceedings between Herold Business Data AG and Telefon & Buch Verlagsgesellschaft mbH,
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to pay the costs, except those incurred by the intervener;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the intervener to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2003 C 6, of 8.1.2005