CELEX: 62013TN0299
Language: en
Date: 2013-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Case T-299/13: Action brought on 31 May 2013 — El Corte Inglés v OHIM — Azzedine Alaïa (ALIA)

27.7.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 215/17
            
         Action brought on 31 May 2013 — El Corte Inglés v OHIM — Azzedine Alaïa (ALIA)
   (Case T-299/13)
   2013/C 215/24
   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: Azzedine Alaïa (Paris, France)
   
      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 15 March 2013 in Case R 819/2012-2;
            
         
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               order both OHIM and Azzedine Alaïa to pay the costs of the present proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Applicant
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Word mark ‘ALIA’ for goods in Classes 3, 14, 18 and 25 — Community trade mark application No 3 788 999
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Azzedine Alaïa
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: International word mark ‘ALAÏA’ and Community figurative mark ‘ALAÏA PARIS’ for goods and services in Classes 3, 16, 18, 20, 25 and 35 as well as earlier non-registered trade mark ‘ALAÏA’
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Opposition upheld in part
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed
   
      Pleas in law:
   
   
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               Breach of Rules 20(6) and 50(1) of Regulation No 2868/95
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009