CELEX: 62013TA0077
Language: en
Date: 2014-10-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-77/13: Judgment of the General Court of 8 October 2014  — Laboratoires Polive v OHIM — Arbora & Ausonia (DODIE) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark DODIE — Earlier national word mark DODOT — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Power to alter decisions)

17.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 409/36
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 8 October 2014 — Laboratoires Polive v OHIM — Arbora & Ausonia (DODIE)
   (Case T-77/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark DODIE - Earlier national word mark DODOT - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Power to alter decisions))
   2014/C 409/51
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Laboratoires Polive (Levallois-Perret, France) (represented by: A. Sion, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Geroulakos, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Arbora & Ausonia, SLU (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: R. Guerras Mazón, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 31 October 2012 (Case R 1949/2011-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Arbora & Ausonia, SLU and Laboratoires Polive.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 31 October 2012 (Case R 1949/2011-2);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Laboratoires Polive;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders Arbora & Ausonia, SLU to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 108, 13.4.2013.