CELEX: 62014TN0136
Language: en
Date: 2014-02-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-136/14: Action brought on 24 February 2014 — Tilda Riceland Private v OHIM — Siam Grains (BASMALI LONG GRAIN RICE RIZ LONG DE LUXE)

5.5.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 135/55
            
         Action brought on 24 February 2014 — Tilda Riceland Private v OHIM — Siam Grains (BASMALI LONG GRAIN RICE RIZ LONG DE LUXE)
   (Case T-136/14)
   2014/C 135/71
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Tilda Riceland Private Ltd (Gurgaon, India) (represented by: S. Malynicz, Barrister, N. Urwin and D. Sills, Solicitors)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Siam Grains Co. Ltd (Bangkok, Thailand)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               Annul the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 18 December 2013 given in Case R 1086/2012-4;
            
         
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               Order the defendant to pay the costs of proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The figurative mark in black and white containing the verbal elements ‘BASMALI LONG GRAIN RICE RIZ LONG DE LUXE’ for goods in Class 30 — Community trade mark application No 3 520 641
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The applicant
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: The earlier non-registered trade mark and the earlier sign ‘used in the course of trade designating a class of goods’‘BASMATI’ used in the United Kingdom in relation to ‘rice’
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Rejected the opposition in its entirety
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissed the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(4) CTMR.