CELEX: C2007/082/77
Language: en
Date: 2007-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-477/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 6 February 2007 — Aktieselskabet af 21. november 2001 v OHIM — TDK Kabushiki Kaisha (TDK) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark TDK — Earlier Community figurative mark TDK — Earlier national word or figurative marks TDK — Relative ground for refusal — Reputation — Taking unfair advantage of the distinctive character or the reputation of the earlier mark — Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

14.4.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 82/35
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 6 February 2007 — Aktieselskabet af 21. november 2001 v OHIM — TDK Kabushiki Kaisha (TDK)
   (Case T-477/04) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark TDK - Earlier Community figurative mark TDK - Earlier national word or figurative marks TDK - Relative ground for refusal - Reputation - Taking unfair advantage of the distinctive character or the reputation of the earlier mark - Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2007/C 82/77)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Aktieselskabet af 21. november 2001 (Brande, Denmark) (represented by C. Barret Christiansen, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by S. Laitinen and G. Schneider, Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: TDK Kabushiki Kaisha (TDK Corp.) (Tokyo, Japan) (represented by A. Norris, Barrister)
   Re:
   ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 7 October 2004 (Case R 364/2003-1) concerning opposition proceedings between TDK Kabushiki Kaisha (TDK Corp.) and Aktieselskabet af 21 november 2001.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant, Aktieselskabet af 21. november 2001 to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 69, 19.3.2005.