Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 January 2007 - Calavo Growers v OHIM - Calvo Sanz (Calvo)
(Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for figurative mark CALVO - Earlier Community word mark CALAVO - Admissibility of the opposition - Grounds of the opposition lodged in a language other than the language of the proceedings - Article 74(1) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Rule 20(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicant: Calavo Growers Inc. (Santa Ana, United States) (represented by: E. Armijo Chávarri and A. Castán Pérez-Gómez, lawyers)
Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. García Murillo, Agent)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Luis Calvo Sanz SA (Carballo, Spain) (represented by J. Rivas Zurdo and E. López Leiva, lawyers)
Re:
Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 8 November 2004 (Case R 159/2004-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Calavo Growers Inc. and Luis Calvo Sanz SA.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 8 November 2004 (Case R 159/2004-1);
Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the applicant;
Orders the intervener to bear its own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 82, 2.4.2005.