CELEX: C2006/131/22
Language: en
Date: 2006-06-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-206/04 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of  23 March 2006  — Mülhens GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Zirh International Corp. (Appeal — Community trade mark — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Likelihood of confusion — Word mark ZIRH — Opposition by the proprietor of the Community trade mark SIR)

3.6.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 131/13
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 23 March 2006 — Mülhens GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Zirh International Corp.
   (Case C-206/04 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Community trade mark - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Likelihood of confusion - Word mark ZIRH - Opposition by the proprietor of the Community trade mark SIR)
   (2006/C 131/22)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Appellant: Mülhens GmbH & Co. KG (represented by: T. Schulte-Beckhausen and C. Musiol, lawyers)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Laitinen and A. von Mühlendahl, Agents)
   
      Intervener: Zirh International Corp., (represented by L. Kouker)
   Re:
   Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 3 March 2004 in Case T-355/02 Mülhens v OHIM, by which it dismissed an action for annulment of the rejection of the opposition by the proprietor of an earlier mark to the registration of a trade mark — Similarity of the marks — Art. 8(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mülhens GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 179, 10.07.2004.