CELEX: 62014TN0525
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-525/14: Action brought on 13 July 2014 — Compagnie générale des établissements Michelin v OHIM — Continental Reifen Deutschland (XKING)

8.9.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 303/51
            
         Action brought on 13 July 2014 — Compagnie générale des établissements Michelin v OHIM — Continental Reifen Deutschland (XKING)
   (Case T-525/14)
   2014/C 303/60
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Compagnie générale des établissements Michelin (Clermont-Ferrand, France) (represented by: L. Carlini, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               Annul the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 5 May 2014 given in Case R 1522/2013-4;
            
         
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               Order the defendant and the other party to the proceedings, should it intervene, to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      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 containing the verbal elements ‘XKING’ for goods in Class 12 — Community trade mark application No 1 0 6 44  821
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The applicant
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Community trademarks Nos 5 2 93  782 and 5 5 60  396, national marks an international registrations
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Upheld the opposition in its entirety
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Annulled the contested decision and rejected the opposition
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) and (5) CTMR