CELEX: 62013TN0720
Language: en
Date: 2013-12-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-720/13: Action brought on 30 December 2013 — Gat Microencapsulation/OHMI — BASF (KARIS)

8.3.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 71/24
            
         
      Action brought on 30 December 2013 — Gat Microencapsulation/OHMI — BASF (KARIS)
      (Case T-720/13)
      (2014/C 71/45)
      Language in which the application was lodged: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Gat Microencapsulation AG (Ebenfurth, Austria) (represented by: S. Soler Lerma and M. C. March Cabrelles, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany)
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  Annul the contested decision insofar appeal submitted by the appellant/applicant was rejected;
               
            
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                  Order OHIM and the interveners to pay the costs.
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      
         Applicant for a Community trade mark: Gat Microencapsulation AG
      
         Community trade mark concerned: The word mark ‘KARIS’, for a list of goods and services in Classes 1, 5 and 35
      
         Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: BASF SE
      
         Mark or sign cited in opposition: Community trade mark ‘CARYX’, for goods in classes 1 and 5; international trade mark ‘CARYX’, for goods in classes 1 and 5; Hungarian, Italian and Benelux trade mark ‘AKRIS’, for goods in class 5
      
         Decision of the Opposition Division: Rejection of the Community trade mark application
      
         Decision of the Board of Appeal: Partial rejection of the opposition
      
         Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009