CELEX: 62010TN0107
Language: en
Date: 2010-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-107/10: Action brought on 3 March 2010 — Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Cologne v OHIM — Natura Cosméticos (NATURAVIVA)

22.5.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 134/38
            
         Action brought on 3 March 2010 — Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Cologne v OHIM — Natura Cosméticos (NATURAVIVA)
   (Case T-107/10)
   2010/C 134/66
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Cologne GmbH (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: K. Sandberg, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Natura Cosméticos, SA (Itapecerica da Serra, Brazil)
   
      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 23 November 2009 in case R 1558/2008-2;
            
         
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               Order the defendant to pay the costs of the proceedings; and
            
         
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               Order the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal to pay the costs of the proceedings before the defendant.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for the Community trade mark: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The word mark ‘NATURAVIVA’, for goods and services in classes 3, 5 and 44
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The applicant
   
      Mark or sign cited: German trade mark registrations of the mark ‘VIVA’, for goods in class 3; Community trade mark registration of the mark ‘VIVA’, for goods in class 3
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Rejected the Community trade mark application in its entirety
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Upheld the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Council Regulation No 207/2009 as the Board of Appeal wrongly found that there was no likelihood of confusion between the trade marks concerned.