CELEX: 62010TJ0514
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 June 2012. # Fruit of the Loom, Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Revocation proceedings - Community word mark FRUIT - Non-use - Article 15(1)(a) and Article 51(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-514/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 June 2012 —Fruit of the Loom v OHIM — Blueshore Management (FRUIT)(Case T-514/10)
      Community trade mark — Revocation proceedings — Community word mark FRUIT — Non-use — Article 15(1)(a) and Article 51(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      1.                     Community trade mark — Appeals procedure — Action before the European Union Courts — Jurisdiction of the General Court — Review
            of the lawfulness of decisions of the Boards of Appeal (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 65(2) and (3)) (see para. 12)
      2.                     Community trade mark — Appeals procedure — Action before the European Union Courts — Jurisdiction of the General Court — No
            power to issue directions (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 65(6)) (see para. 13)
      3.                     Community trade mark — Surrender, revocation and invalidity — Causes of revocation — No genuine use of a trade mark — Use
            of the mark in a form which differs through factors not altering the distinctive character of the mark — Subject-matter and
            scope of Article 15(1)(a) of Regulation No 207/2009 (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 15(1)(a)) (see paras 28, 29, 38)
      4.                     Community trade mark — Surrender, revocation and invalidity — Causes of revocation — No genuine use of a trade mark — Use
            of the mark in a form which differs through factors not altering the distinctive character of the mark — Word mark FRUIT (Council
            Regulation No 207/2009, Arts 15(1)(a), and 51(1)(a)) (see paras 39, 40, 54-68)
      5.                     Community trade mark — Surrender, revocation and invalidity — Causes of revocation — No genuine use of a trade mark — Assessment
            of the genuineness of the use of the mark (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 15(1)) (see para. 50 )
      6.                     Community trade mark — Surrender, revocation and invalidity — Causes of revocation — No genuine use of a trade mark — Criteria
            for assessment — Requirement of solid and objective evidence (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 15(1), and Art. 78(1)(f));
            Commission Regulation No 2868/95, Art. 1, Rule 22(3)) (see paras 51, 52, 55)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 30 August 2010 (Case R 1686/2008-4) concerning
                  revocation proceedings between Blueshore Management SA and Fruit of the Loom, Inc.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Fruit of the Loom, Inc. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by OHIM;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Blueshore Management SA to bear its own costs.