CELEX: 62010TN0059
Language: en
Date: 2010-02-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-59/10: Action brought on 9 February 2010 — Geemarc Telecom v OHIM — Audioline (AMPLIDECT)

17.4.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 100/57
            
         Action brought on 9 February 2010 — Geemarc Telecom v OHIM — Audioline (AMPLIDECT)
   (Case T-59/10)
   2010/C 100/84
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Geemarc Telecom International Ltd (Wanchai, Hong Kong) (represented by: G. Farrington, Solicitor)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Audioline GmbH (Neuss, Germany)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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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 20 November 2009 in case R 913/2009-2; and
            
         
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               Order the defendant and the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal to pay their own costs and those of the applicant.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Registered Community trade mark subject of the application for a declaration of invalidity: The word mark ‘AMPLIDECT’ for goods in classes 9 and 16
   
      Proprietor of the Community trade mark: The applicant
   
      Party requesting the declaration of invalidity of the Community trade mark: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Decision of the Cancellation Division: Rejected the request for a declaration of invalidity
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Granted the appeal and, as a result, cancelled the registered Community trade mark subject of the application for a declaration of invalidity
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Council Regulation 207/2009, as the Board of Appeal: (i) failed to take into account that the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal had failed to adduce evidence of lack of distinctive character of the registered Community trade mark subject of the application for a declaration of invalidity; and (ii) failed to take into account that the registered Community trade mark subject of the application for a declaration of invalidity has acquired an enhanced distinctiveness through the level of use made of it; the Board of Appeal failed to restrict itself to an examination of the evidence and arguments provided by the parties within the time line set by the Board of Appeal.