CELEX: 62016TN0024
Language: en
Date: 2016-01-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-24/16: Action brought on 21 January 2016 — Sovena Portugal — Consumer Goods v OHIM — Mueloliva (FONTOLIVA)

21.3.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 106/38
            
         Action brought on 21 January 2016 — Sovena Portugal — Consumer Goods v OHIM — Mueloliva (FONTOLIVA)
   (Case T-24/16)
   (2016/C 106/44)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Sovena Portugal — Consumer Goods, SA (Lisbon, Portugal) (represented by: D. Martins Pereira, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Mueloliva, SL (Cordoba, Spain)
   
      Details of the proceedings before OHIM
   
   
      Applicant: Applicant
   
      Trade mark at issue: International registration designating the European Union in respect of the word mark ‘FONTOLIVA’ — International registration No 1 107 792 designating the European Union
   
      Procedure before OHIM: Opposition proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 November 2015 in Case R 1813/2014-2
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               admit this action;
            
         
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               dismiss the contested decision in its entirety;
            
         
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               rectify the contested decision, based on the grounds in this action and declare the granting of protection to International Trademark No 1 107 792 FONTOLIVA in respect of the European Union;
            
         
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               condemn OHIM in the incurred expenses by the applicant, including the expenses made in the case which run with OHIM;
            
         
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               condemn the other party in the case to bear the applicant’s costs in the OHIM proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Lapse of earlier Spanish trademark No 780 071 FUENOLIVA;
            
         
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               Insufficiency of the evidence of genuine use of earlier trademark;
            
         
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               Inexistence of likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) CTMR;
            
         
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               Existence of two earlier trademarks FONTOLIVA in Spain.