CELEX: 62007TA0103
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-103/07: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 23 September 2009 — Fratex Industria e Comércio v OHIM– USA Track & Field (TRACK & FIELD USA) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for figurative Community mark TRACK & FIELD USA — Earlier national figurative mark TRACK & FIELD — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Lack of similarity between the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 [now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

7.11.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 267/56
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 23 September 2009 — Fratex Industria e Comércio v OHIM– USA Track & Field (TRACK & FIELD USA)
   (Case T-103/07) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for figurative Community mark TRACK & FIELD USA - Earlier national figurative mark TRACK & FIELD - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Lack of similarity between the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 [now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2009/C 267/97
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Fratex Indústria e Comércio, Ltda (São Paolo, Brasil) (represented by: B. Braga da Cruz, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: O. Mondéjar Ortuño, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: USA Track & Field, Inc (Indiana, United States of America)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of 18 January 2007 of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM (Case No R. 1061/2005-4)) concerning opposition proceedings between Fratex Indústria e Comércio, Ltda and USA Track & Field, Inc
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the application.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Fratex Indústria e Comércio, Ltda to pay the costs
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 140, 23.6.2007.