CELEX: 62014TN0631
Language: en
Date: 2014-08-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-631/14: Action brought on 22 August 2014  — Roland v OHIM (Nuance of the colour red for shoe soles)

27.10.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 380/16
            
         Action brought on 22 August 2014 — Roland v OHIM (Nuance of the colour red for shoe soles)
   (Case T-631/14)
   2014/C 380/21
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Roland SE (Essen, Germany) (represented by: C. Onken and O. Rauscher)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Christian Louboutin (Paris, France)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               alter the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 28 May 2014 in Case R 1591/2013-1 to the extent that opposition No B 1 9 22  890 is fully upheld and Community trade mark application No 008845539 is rejected;
            
         
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               in the alternative: annul the contested decision;
            
         
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               order the defendant to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Christian Louboutin
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Other marks, which consist of a nuance of the colour red, which is applied to the sole of a shoe, for goods in Class 25 — Community trade mark application No 8845539
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Roland SE
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: International registration of the figurative mark containing the word element ‘my SHOES’, for goods in Class 25
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Rejected the opposition
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissed the appeal
   
      Pleas in law:
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 75(2) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009.