CELEX: 62006TA0305
Language: en
Date: 2008-10-15 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-305/06 to T-307/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 October 2008 — Air Products and Chemicals v OHIM — Messer (Ferromix, Inomix and Alumix) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Applications for the Community word marks Ferromix, Inomix and Alumix — Earlier Community word marks FERROMAXX, INOMAXX and ALUMAXX — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

6.12.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 313/30
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 October 2008 — Air Products and Chemicals v OHIM — Messer (Ferromix, Inomix and Alumix)
   (Joined Cases T-305/06 to T-307/06) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Applications for the Community word marks Ferromix, Inomix and Alumix - Earlier Community word marks FERROMAXX, INOMAXX and ALUMAXX - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2008/C 313/54)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States) (represented by: S. Heurung and C. Probst, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Laitinen and D. Botis, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the Court of First Instance: Messer Group GmbH (Sulzbach, Germany) (represented by: W. Graf v. Schwerin and J. Schmidt, lawyers)
   Re:
   Actions brought against three decisions of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 12 September 2006 (Joined Cases R 1270/2005-2 and R 1408/2005-2; R 1226/2005-2 and R 1398/2005-2; R 1225/2005-2 and R 1397/2005-2), concerning opposition proceedings between Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and Messer Group GmbH.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decisions of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 12 September 2006 (Joined Cases R 1270/2005-2 and R 1408/2005-2; R 1226/2005-2 and R 1398/2005-2; R 1225/2005-2 and R 1397/2005-2);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and pay the costs of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Messer Group GmbH to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 326, 30.12.2006.