CELEX: 62006TA0318
Language: en
Date: 2009-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-318/06 to T-321/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 24 March 2009 — Moreira da Fonseca v OHIM — General Óptica (GENERAL OPTICA) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Multi-coloured Community figurative marks GENERAL OPTICA — Earlier business name Generalóptica — Relative ground for refusal — Local significance of the earlier sign — Articles 8(4) and 52(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

16.5.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 113/32
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 24 March 2009 — Moreira da Fonseca v OHIM — General Óptica (GENERAL OPTICA)
   (Joined Cases T-318/06 to T-321/06) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Multi-coloured Community figurative marks GENERAL OPTICA - Earlier business name Generalóptica - Relative ground for refusal - Local significance of the earlier sign - Articles 8(4) and 52(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   2009/C 113/64
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Alberto Jorge Moreira da Fonseca, Lda (Santo Tirso, Portugal) (represented by: M. Oehen Mendes and D. Jeffries, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Novais Gonçalves, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: General Óptica, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: M. Curell Aguilà and X. Fàbrega Sabaté, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Four actions brought against the decisions of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 8 August 2006 (Cases R 944/2005-1, R 945/2005-1, R 946/2005-1 and R 947/2005-1), concerning four sets of invalidity proceedings between Alberto Jorge Moreira da Fonseca, Lda and General Óptica, SA
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the actions.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Alberto Jorge Moreira da Fonseca, Lda to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 236, 30.12.2006.