CELEX: 62013TN0267
Language: en
Date: 2013-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-267/13: Action brought on 17 May 2013 — El Corte Inglés v OHIM — Gaffashion (BAUSS)

27.7.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 215/14
            
         Action brought on 17 May 2013 — El Corte Inglés v OHIM — Gaffashion (BAUSS)
   (Case T-267/13)
   2013/C 215/19
   Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: El Corte Inglés, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: E. Seijo Veiguela and J. L. Rivas Zurdo, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Gaffashion — Comércio de Acessórios de Moda, Lda (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the General Court should:
   
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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 21 February 2013 in Case R 2295/2011-2, in so far as, by dismissing the appeal brought by the applicant, it upheld the decision of the Opposition Division to grant in part the Community trade mark No 9 093 733‘BAUSS’ (word);
            
         
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               order the party or parties opposing this action to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Gaffashion — Comércio de Acessórios de Moda, Lda
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Word mark ‘BAUSS’ for goods and services in Classes 18, 25 and 35 — Community trade mark application No 9 093 733
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Applicant
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Figurative marks with word elements ‘BASS 3 TRES’, ‘BASS 10 DIEZ’ and ‘BASS 20 VEINTE’ for goods and services in Classes 18, 25 and 35
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Opposition rejected
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009