Notice for the OJ

 

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 20 April 2005

in Case T-318/03 Atomic Austria GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) ¹

(Community trade mark - Word mark ATOMIC BLITZ - Opposition of the proprietor of national word marks ATOMIC - Evidence of renewal of registration of the earlier mark - Scope of the examination conducted by OHIM - Rejection of opposition - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(Language of the case: German)

In Case T-318/03: Atomic Austria GmbH, established in Altenmarkt (Austria), represented by G. Kucsko and C. Schumacher, lawyers, against the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: G. Schneider and B. Müller), the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal having been Fabricas Agrupadas de Muñecas de Onil, SA, established in Onil (Spain) ( action against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 July 2003 (Case R 95/2003-2), relating to opposition proceedings between Atomic Austria GmbH and Fabricas Agrupadas de Muñecas de Onil, SA, ( the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber), composed of J. Pirrung, President, A.W.H. Meij and I. Pelikánová, Judges; J. Plingers, Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 20 April 2005, in which it:

Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 9 July 2003 (Case R 95/2003-2);

Orders the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) to pay the costs.

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¹ - OJ C 304 of 13.12.2003.