CELEX: 62006TA0304
Language: en
Date: 2008-07-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-304/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 9 July 2008 — Reber v OHIM — Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli (Mozart) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community word mark Mozart — Subject-matter of the dispute — Absolute ground for refusal — Descriptive character — Obligation to state the reasons on which a decision is based — Legitimate expectations — Equal treatment — Principle of legality — Article 7(1)(c), Article 51(1)(a), Article 73, first sentence, and Article 74(1), first phrase, of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

15.8.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/48
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 9 July 2008 — Reber v OHIM — Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli (Mozart)
   (Case T-304/06) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community word mark Mozart - Subject-matter of the dispute - Absolute ground for refusal - Descriptive character - Obligation to state the reasons on which a decision is based - Legitimate expectations - Equal treatment - Principle of legality - Article 7(1)(c), Article 51(1)(a), Article 73, first sentence, and Article 74(1), first phrase, of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2008/C 209/84)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Paul Reber GmbH & Co. KG (Bad Reichenhall, Germany) (represented by: O. Spuhler, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Schneider, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG (Kilchberg, Switzerland) (represented by: R.Lange and G. Hild, lawyers)
   Re:
   Action brought against the decision of the second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 8 September 2006 (Case R 97/2005-2) relating to entry of Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG and Paul Reber GmbH & Co. KG.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Paul Reber GmbH & Co. KG to pay its own costs and those of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprungli AG to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 326, 30.12.2006.