CELEX: 62014TN0554
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-554/14: Action brought on 25 July 2014  — Messi Cuccittini v OHIM — J.M.-E.V. e hijos (MESSI)

29.9.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 339/24
            
         Action brought on 25 July 2014 — Messi Cuccittini v OHIM — J.M.-E.V. e hijos (MESSI)
   (Case T-554/14)
   2014/C 339/29
   Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: J. L. Rivas Zurdo and M. Toro Gordillo, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: J.M.-E.V. e hijos, SRL (Granollers, Spain)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the General Court should:
   
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               annul the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 23 April 2014 in Case R 1553/2013-1, in which it dismissed the applicant’s appeal and affirmed the decision of the Opposition Division upholding Opposition No B 1 9 38  458 and rejecting in part Community trade mark application No 1 0 1 81  154‘MESSI’ (figurative);
            
         
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               order the party or parties opposing the action to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: The applicant
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Figurative mark including the word element ‘MESSI’ for goods in classes 3, 9, 14, 16, 25 and 28 — Community trade mark application No 1 0 1 81  154
   
      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: Community word marks ‘MASSI’ for goods in classes 9, 25 and 28
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Upheld the opposition
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissed the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009