Notice for the OJ

 

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 15 February 2005

in Case T-169/02 Cervecería Modelo, SA de CV v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) ¹

(Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for a Community figurative mark representing a bottle of beer including the verbal element 'negra modelo' - Earlier national figurative mark Modelo - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(Language of the case: Spanish)

In Case T-169/02: Cervecería Modelo, SA de CV, established in Mexico, represented by C. Lema Devesa and A. Velázquez Ibáñez, lawyers, against Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: J. Crespo Carrillo and I. de Medrano Caballero), the other party to the proceedings before the OHIM Board of Appeal, and intervener before the Court of First Instance, being Modelo Continente Hipermercados, SA, established in Senhora da Hora (Portugal), represented by N. Cruz, J. Pimenta and T. Colaço Dias, lawyers - action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM of 6 March 2002 (Cases R 536/2001-3 and R 674/2001-3), concerning opposition proceedings between Cervecería Modelo, SA de CV and Modelo Continente Hipermercados, SA ( the Court of First Instance (First Chamber), composed of B. Vesterdorf, President, P. Mengozzi and I. Labucka, Judges; H. Jung, Registrar, gave a judgment on 15 February 2005, in which it:

1.    Dismisses the application;

2.    Orders the applicant to pay the costs.

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¹ - . OJ C 180 of 27.7.2002.