CELEX: C2006/281/52
Language: en
Date: 2006-11-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-168/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 7 September 2006 — L & D v OHIM — Sämann (Aire Limpio) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Earlier figurative marks representing a fir tree including, in certain cases, verbal elements — Application for figurative mark containing the verbal element Aire Limpio — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) and Article 73 of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

18.11.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 281/31
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 7 September 2006 — L & D v OHIM — Sämann (Aire Limpio)
   (Case T-168/04) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Earlier figurative marks representing a fir tree including, in certain cases, verbal elements - Application for figurative mark containing the verbal element ‘Aire Limpio’ - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) and Article 73 of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2006/C 281/52)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: L & D, SA (Huercal de Almeria, Spain) (represented by: initially, M. Knospe, and, subsequently, S. Miralles Miravet and A. Castedo Garcia, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. García Murillo, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the Court of First Instance: Julius Sämann Ltd (Zug, Switzerland) (represented by: A. Castán Pérez Gómez and E. Armijo Chávarri, lawyers)
   Re:
   Application for partial annulment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 15 March 2004 (Case R 326/2003-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Julius Sämann Ltd and L & D, SA.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 273, 6.11.2004.