CELEX: C2006/022/23
Language: en
Date: 2006-01-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-3/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of  24 November 2005  — Simonds Farsons Cisk v OHIM (Community trade mark — Opposition procedure — Application for registration of a Community figurative mark containing the verbal element  KINJI by SPA  — Earlier Community word mark KINNIE — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 73 of Regulation No 40/94)

28.1.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/12
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 24 November 2005 — Simonds Farsons Cisk v OHIM
   (Case T-3/04) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - Application for registration of a Community figurative mark containing the verbal element ‘KINJI by SPA’ - Earlier Community word mark KINNIE - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 73 of Regulation No 40/94)
   (2006/C 22/23)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant(s): Simonds Farsons Cisk plc (Mrieħel, Malta) (represented by: M. Bagnall, I. Wood, Solicitor, and R. Hacon, Barrister)
   
      Defendant(s): Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, Agent)
   
      Other party or parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the Court of First Instance: Spa Monopole, compagnie fermière de Spa SA/NV (Spa, Belgium) (represented by: L. de Brouwer, E. Cornu, É. De Gryse and D. Moreau, lawyers)
   Application for
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 November 2003 (Case R 996/2002-1) concerning opposition proceedings between Simonds Farsons Cisk plc and Spa Monopole, compagnie fermière de Spa SA/NV
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 59, 6.3.2004.