CELEX: 62011TA0660
Language: en
Date: 2015-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-660/11: Judgment of the General Court of 16 June 2015 — Polytetra v OHIM — EI du Pont de Nemours (POLYTETRAFLON) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark POLYTETRAFLON — Earlier Community word mark TEFLON — No genuine use of the earlier mark — Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Final product incorporating a component — Use of the earlier mark in respect of the final products of third parties — Duty to state reasons)

10.8.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 262/15
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 June 2015 — Polytetra v OHIM — EI du Pont de Nemours (POLYTETRAFLON)
   (Case T-660/11) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark POLYTETRAFLON - Earlier Community word mark TEFLON - No genuine use of the earlier mark - Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Final product incorporating a component - Use of the earlier mark in respect of the final products of third parties - Duty to state reasons))
   (2015/C 262/19)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Polytetra GmbH (Mönchengladbach, Germany) (represented by: R. Schiffer, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Bullock, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: EI du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, United States) (represented by: E. Armijo Chávarri, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 September 2011 (Case R 2005/2010-1) concerning opposition proceedings between EI du Pont de Nemours and Company and Polytetra GmbH.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 29 September 2011 (Case R 2005/2010-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Polytetra GmbH;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders EI du Pont de Nemours and Company to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 65, 3.3.2012.