CELEX: C2007/155/41
Language: en
Date: 2007-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-137/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 May 2007 — La Perla v OHIM — Worldgem Brands (NIMEI LA PERLA MODERN CLASSIC) (Community trade mark — Cancellation proceedings — Community word mark NIMEI LA PERLA MODERN CLASSIC — Earlier national figurative and word marks la PERLA and LA PERLA PARFUMS — Relative grounds for refusal — Article 52(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 8(5) of Regulation No 40/94)

7.7.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/21
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 May 2007 — La Perla v OHIM — Worldgem Brands (NIMEI LA PERLA MODERN CLASSIC)
   (Case T-137/05) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Cancellation proceedings - Community word mark NIMEI LA PERLA MODERN CLASSIC - Earlier national figurative and word marks la PERLA and LA PERLA PARFUMS - Relative grounds for refusal - Article 52(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 8(5) of Regulation No 40/94)
   (2007/C 155/41)
   Language of the case: Italian
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Gruppo La Perla SpA (Bologna, Italy) (represented by: R. Morresi and A. Dal Ferro, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: initially M. Capostagno, and subsequently O. Montalto, Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the OHIM Board of Appeal, intervener before the Court of First Instance: Worldgem Brands — Gestão e Investimentos Lda, formerly Cielo Brands — Gestão e Investimentos Lda, (Madeira, Portugal) (represented by: G. Bozzola et C. Bellomunno, lawyers)
   Re:
   Appeal lodged against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 25 January 2005 (Case R 537/2004-1) relating to cancellation proceedings between Gruppo La Perla SpA and Worldgem Brands — Gestão e Investimentos Lda.
   Operative part of the judgment
   
               1.
            
            
               The decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 25 January 2005 (Case R537/2004-1) is annulled.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The intervener is ordered to bear its own costs and to bear one third of the applicant's costs.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               The applicant is ordered to bear two thirds of its own costs.
            
         
               4.
            
            
               OHIM is ordered to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 132 of 28.5.2005.