CELEX: C2004/314/44
Language: en
Date: 2004-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 6 October 2004 in Case T-356/02: Vitakraft-Werke Wührmann & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Earlier figurative mark including the verbal element ‘Krafft’ — Application for Community word mark VITAKRAFT — Relative ground for refusal — Genuine use of the earlier mark — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Rule 22(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95)

18.12.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 314/17
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   
   of 6 October 2004
   in Case T-356/02: Vitakraft-Werke Wührmann & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Earlier figurative mark including the verbal element ‘Krafft’ - Application for Community word mark VITAKRAFT - Relative ground for refusal - Genuine use of the earlier mark - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Rule 22(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95)
   (2004/C 314/44)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case T-356/02: Vitakraft-Werke Wührmann & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG, established in Bremen (Germany), represented by U. Sander, lawyer, against Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: A. Apostolakis and G. Schneider), the other party to the proceedings before the OHIM Board of Appeal and intervener before the Court of First Instance being Krafft, SA, established in Andoain (Spain), represented by P. Koch Moreno, lawyer — ACTION seeking the annulment of the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 September 2002 (Joined Cases R 506/2000-4 and R 581/2000-4) in opposition proceedings between Krafft, SA, and Vitakraft-Werke Wührmann & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG — the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber), composed of J. Pirrung, President, A.W.H. Meij and N.J. Forwood, Judges; B. Pastor, Deputy Registrar, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 6 October 2004, in which it:
   
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               Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 4 September 2002 (Joined Cases R 506/2000-4 and R 581/2000-4) in so far as it allowed the intervener's appeal before the Board of Appeal concerning the goods ‘industrial oils and greases; lubricants; fuels (including motor spirit) and illuminants’ (Class 4) and the goods ‘building materials (not metallic); non-metallic rigid pipes for building, asphalt, pitch and bitumen’ (Class 19) contained in the Community trade mark application;
            
         
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               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
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               Orders the parties to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 55, 8.3.2003.