CELEX: C2007/082/80
Language: en
Date: 2007-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-88/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 8 February 2007 — Quelle v OHIM — Nars Cosmetics (NARS) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the figurative Community trade mark NARS — Earlier figurative national marks including the word element MARS — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Absence of similarity between the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

14.4.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 82/36
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 8 February 2007 — Quelle v OHIM — Nars Cosmetics (NARS)
   (Case T-88/05) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the figurative Community trade mark NARS - Earlier figurative national marks including the word element MARS - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Absence of similarity between the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2007/C 82/80)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Quelle AG (Fürth, Germany) (represented by: H. Lindner, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Laitinen and A. Folliard Monguiral, Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the Court of First Instance: Nars Cosmetics, Inc. (New York, United States) (represented by: M. de Justo Bailey, lawyer)
   Re:
   Action for annulment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 17 December 2004 (Case R 379/2004-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Quelle AG and Nars Cosmetics, Inc.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 155, 25.6.2005.