CELEX: 62014TA0327
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-327/14: Judgment of the General Court of 3 December 2015 — Compagnie des fromages & Richesmonts v OHIM (representation of a red and white Vichy motif) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community figurative mark representing a red and white Vichy motif — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

25.1.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 27/45
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 3 December 2015 — Compagnie des fromages & Richesmonts v OHIM (representation of a red and white Vichy motif)
   (Case T-327/14) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community figurative mark representing a red and white Vichy motif - Lack of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 027/55)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Compagnie des fromages & Richesmonts (Puteaux, France) (represented by: T. Mollet-Viéville and T. Cuche, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented initially by: V. Melgar, and subsequently by: J. Crespo Carillo, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Grupo Lactalis Iberia SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: D. Masson, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 2 March 2014 (Case R 1295/2012-4) concerning invalidity proceedings between Grupo Lactalis Iberia SA and Compagnie des fromages & Richesmonts.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Compagnie des fromages & Richesmonts to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 235, 21.7.2014.