CELEX: 62012TN0278
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-278/12: Action brought on 22 June 2012 — Inter-Union Technohandel v OHIM — Gumersport Mediterranea de Distribuciones (PROFLEX)

8.9.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 273/12
            
         Action brought on 22 June 2012 — Inter-Union Technohandel v OHIM — Gumersport Mediterranea de Distribuciones (PROFLEX)
   (Case T-278/12)
   2012/C 273/21
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Inter-Union Technohandel GmbH (Landau in der Pfalz, Germany) (represented by: K. Schmidt-Hern and A. Feutlinske, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Gumersport Mediterranea de Distribuciones, SL (Barcelona, Spain)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annul the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 27 March 2012 in case R 413/2011-2; and
            
         
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               Order OHIM to pay the costs of the applicant.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The figurative mark ‘PROFLEX’ for goods and service sin classes 9, 12 and 25
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The applicant
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: German trade mark registration No 39628817 for the word mark ‘PROFEX’, for goods in classes 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17 and 21
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Partially upheld the opposition
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Annulled the contested decision and rejected the opposition entirely
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Articles 42(2) and (3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 and Rule 22 of Commission Regulation (EC) no 2868/95.