CELEX: 62006TA0165
Language: en
Date: 2009-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-165/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 May 2009 — Fiorucci v OHIM — Edwin (ELIO FIORUCCI) (Community trade mark — Invalidity and revocation proceedings — Community word mark ELIO FIORUCCI — Registration of the name of a well-known person as a trade mark — Article 52(2)(a) and Article 50(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

4.7.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 153/34
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 May 2009 — Fiorucci v OHIM — Edwin (ELIO FIORUCCI)
   (Case T-165/06) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Invalidity and revocation proceedings - Community word mark ELIO FIORUCCI - Registration of the name of a well-known person as a trade mark - Article 52(2)(a) and Article 50(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   2009/C 153/65
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Elio Fiorucci (Milan, Italy) (represented by: A. Vanzetti, G. Sironi and F. Rossi, Lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: O. Montalto and L. Rampini, Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Edwin Co. Ltd (Tokyo, Japan) (represented by: D. Rigatti, M. Bertani, S. Verea, K. Muraro and M. Balestriero, Lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 6 April 2006 (Decision R 238/2005-1) concerning invalidity and revocation proceedings between Mr Elio Fiorucci and Edwin Co. Ltd.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 6 April 2006 (Case R 238/2005-1) in so far as it contains an error of law in the interpretation of Article 8(3) of the Codice della Proprietà Industriale (Italian Industrial Property Code);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and two thirds of the costs incurred by Mr Elio Fiorucci;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders Edwin Co. Ltd to pay its own costs and one third of those incurred by Mr Elio Fiorucci.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 190, 12.8.2006.