CELEX: 62014TN0201
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-201/14: Action brought on 26 March 2014 — The Body Shop International v OHIM — Spa Monopole (SPA WISDOM)

21.7.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 235/19
            
         Action brought on 26 March 2014 — The Body Shop International v OHIM — Spa Monopole (SPA WISDOM)
   (Case T-201/14)
   2014/C 235/26
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: The Body Shop International plc (Littlehampton, United Kingdom) (represented by: I. Vernimme, H. Viaene, S. Vandewynckel and D. Gillet, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Spa Monopole, compagnie fermière de Spa SA/NV (Spa, Belgium)
   
      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 16 January 2014 given in Case R 1516/2012-4;
            
         
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               Order the defendant, and, if necessary, the intervener, to pay the costs of proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: The applicant
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The wordmark ‘SPA WISDOM’ for goods in Class 3 — Community trade mark application No 8 9 00  748
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: The Benelux trademarks Nos 3 89  230, 4 99  046, 3 72  307 for the word mark ‘SPA’ and the Benelux trademark No 6 93  395 for the word mark ‘LES THERMES DE SPA’
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Upheld the opposition
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissed the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Articles 8(1)(b) and 8(5) CTMR