CELEX: C2007/095/71
Language: en
Date: 2007-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-215/03: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 22 March 2007 — SIGLA v OHIM — Elleni Holding (VIPS) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community word mark VIPS — Earlier national word mark VIPS — Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 74 of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Principle that the parties delimit the subject matter of the proceedings — Rights of the defence)

28.4.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 95/36
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 22 March 2007 — SIGLA v OHIM — Elleni Holding (VIPS)
   (Case T-215/03) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark VIPS - Earlier national word mark VIPS - Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 74 of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Principle that the parties delimit the subject matter of the proceedings - Rights of the defence)
   (2007/C 95/71)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: SIGLA SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: E. Armijo Chávarri, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: I. de Medrano Caballero and G. Schneider, Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Elleni Holding BV (Alphen aan de Rijn, Netherlands)
   Re:
   Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM of 1 April 2003 (Case R 1127/2000-3) relating to opposition proceedings between SIGLA SA and Elleni Holding BV
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 1 April 2003 (Case R 1127/2000-3);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) to pay the costs incurred by the applicant.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 200, 23.8.2003.