CELEX: 62012TN0372
Language: en
Date: 2012-08-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-372/12: Action brought on 20 August 2012 — El Corte Inglés v OHIM — Apro Tech (APRO)

27.10.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 331/26
            
         
      Action brought on 20 August 2012 — El Corte Inglés v OHIM — Apro Tech (APRO)
      (Case T-372/12)
      (2012/C 331/50)
      Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: El Corte Inglés, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: E. Seijo Veiguela, J. Rivas Zurdo and I. Munilla Muñoz, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Apro Tech Co., Ltd (Taichung Hsien, Taiwan)
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the General Court should:
      
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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 25 May 2012 in Case R 196/2011-2, declaring that, pursuant to Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009, the opponent’s action before OHIM should have been upheld and the decision of the Opposition Division granting Community trade mark No 8 253 551‘APRO’ (mixed) in full should have been annulled;
               
            
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                  order the defendant and the other party opposing this action to pay the costs.
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      
         Applicant for a Community trade mark: Apro Tech Co., Ltd
      
         Community trade mark concerned: Figurative mark ‘APRO’ for goods in Class 12 — Community trade mark application No 8 253 551
      
         Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: the applicant
      
         Mark or sign cited in opposition: national and Community figurative mark ‘B-PRO by Boomerang’ and Community word marks ‘PRO MOUNTAIN’ and ‘PRO OUTDOOR’ for goods in Class 12
      
         Decision of the Opposition Division: opposition rejected
      
         Decision of the Board of Appeal: appeal dismissed
      
         Pleas in law: infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009