CELEX: 62007TA0230
Language: en
Date: 2009-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-230/07: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 8 July 2009 — Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve v OHIM — Ester C (ESTER-E) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark ESTER-E — Earlier Community figurative mark ESTER-E — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009))

29.8.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 205/33
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 8 July 2009 — Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve v OHIM — Ester C (ESTER-E)
   (Case T-230/07) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark ESTER-E - Earlier Community figurative mark ESTER-E - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009))
   2009/C 205/59
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve SA (Barcelona (Spain)) (represented by: K. Manhaeve, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: The Ester C Company (Prescott, Arizona, United States) (represented by: initially R. Bird, Solicitor, and subsequently by H. Wistam, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 17 April 2007 (Case R 737/2006-2) concerning opposition proceedings between Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve, SA and The Ester C Company.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve, SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 199, 25.8.2007.