CELEX: 62014TN0071
Language: en
Date: 2014-01-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-71/14: Action brought on 30 January 2014 — Swatch v OHIM — Panavision Europe (SWATCHBALL)

28.4.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 129/29
            
         Action brought on 30 January 2014 — Swatch v OHIM — Panavision Europe (SWATCHBALL)
   (Case T-71/14)
   2014/C 129/36
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Swatch AG (Biel, Switzerland) (represented by: P. González-Bueno Catalán de Ocón, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Panavision Europe Ltd (Greenford, United Kingdom)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the 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 11 November 2013 given in Case R 470/2012-2.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The word mark ‘SWATCHBALL’ for goods and services in Classes 9, 35, 41 and 42 — Community trade mark application No 6 543 524
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The applicant
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: International Registrations and Community trade mark registrations of the figurative mark containing the verbal element ‘swatch’ and the word mark ‘SWATCH’
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Rejected the opposition
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissed the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Articles 8(1)(b) and 8(5) CTMR.