CELEX: 62008TN0514
Language: en
Date: 2008-11-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-514/08: Action brought on 26 November 2006 — Laboratorios Byly v OHIM — Ginis (BILLY'S Products)

24.1.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/35
            
         Action brought on 26 November 2006 — Laboratorios Byly v OHIM — Ginis (BILLY'S Products)
   (Case T-514/08)
   (2009/C 19/67)
   Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Laboratorios Byly, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: L. Plaza Fernandez-Villa, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Vasileios Ginis (Athens, Greece)
   Form of order sought
   
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               The contested decision be annulled;
            
         
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               the defendant be ordered to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Vasileios Ginis.
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Figurative mark ‘BILLY'S products’ (application No 4.215.273) for goods in Class 3.
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Laboratorios Byly.
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Community word marks ‘BYLY’ (application No 156.216) for goods in Class 3, and ‘byly’ (application No 2.604.015) for goods in Classes 3 and 5, and services in Class 35.
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Opposition rejected.
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed.
   
      Pleas in law: Incorrect interpretation of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark.