CELEX: C2007/199/59
Language: en
Date: 2007-08-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-192/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 July 2007 — Flex Equipos de Descanso, SA v OHIM — Leggett & Platt (LURA-FLEX) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark LURA-FLEX — Earlier national figurative marks containing the word element flex — Submission to the Opposition Division out of time of translations of documents provided in support of the reputation of earlier marks — Obligation on the Board of Appeal to assess the need to take account of the documents translated)

25.8.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 199/32
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 July 2007 — Flex Equipos de Descanso, SA v OHIM — Leggett & Platt (LURA-FLEX)
   (Case T-192/04) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark LURA-FLEX - Earlier national figurative marks containing the word element ‘flex’ - Submission to the Opposition Division out of time of translations of documents provided in support of the reputation of earlier marks - Obligation on the Board of Appeal to assess the need to take account of the documents translated)
   (2007/C 199/59)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Flex Equipos de Descanso, SA (Madrid (Spain) (represented by: initially by R. Ocquet, and subsequently, I. Valdelomar Serrano, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Laitinen and G. Schneider)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Leggett & Platt, Inc., (Carthage, Missouri, United States) (represented by: G. Cronin and S. Castley, Solicitors, and G. Hollingworth, Barrister)
   Re:
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 18 March 2004 (Case R 333/2003-1) relating to opposition proceedings between Flex Equipos de Descanso, SA and Leggett & Platt, Inc.
   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 18 March 2004 (Case R 333/2003-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the applicant;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the intervener to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 217, 28.8.2004.