CELEX: C2005/217/84
Language: en
Date: 2005-09-03 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 7 July 2005 in Case T-385/03 Miles Handelsgesellschaft International mbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for a Community figurative mark containing the verbal element ‘Biker Miles’ — Earlier Community word mark MILES — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

3.9.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/38
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   
   of 7 July 2005
   in Case T-385/03 Miles Handelsgesellschaft International mbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for a Community figurative mark containing the verbal element ‘Biker Miles’ - Earlier Community word mark MILES - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2005/C 217/84)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case T-385/03: Miles Handelsgesellschaft International mbH, established in Norderstedt (Germany), represented by F. Dettmann and A. Deutsch, lawyers, against Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: T. Eichenberg and G. Schneider), the other party to the proceedings before the OHIM Board of Appeal, intervener before the Court of First Instance, being Biker Miles Motorrad Handels- und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, established in Berlin (Germany), represented by G. Malchartzeck, lawyer — action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 September 2003 (Case R 174/2002-2) concerning opposition proceedings between Biker Miles Motorrad Handels- und Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH and Miles Handelsgesellschaft International mbH — the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber), composed of H. Legal, President, P. Lindh and V. Vadapalas, Judges; B. Pastor, Deputy Registrar, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 7 July 2005, in which it:
   
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               Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 September 2003 (Case R 174/2002-2);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to pay the costs incurred by the applicant;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the intervener to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 35, 7.2.2004