CELEX: 62014TA0201
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-201/14: Judgment of the General Court of 16 March 2016 — The Body Shop International v OHIM — Spa Monopole (SPA WISDOM) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community word mark SPA WISDOM — Earlier Benelux word mark SPA — Relative grounds for refusal — Unfair advantage taken of the distinctive character or the repute of the earlier trade mark — Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

2.5.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 156/35
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 March 2016 — The Body Shop International v OHIM — Spa Monopole (SPA WISDOM)
   (Case T-201/14) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark SPA WISDOM - Earlier Benelux word mark SPA - Relative grounds for refusal - Unfair advantage taken of the distinctive character or the repute of the earlier trade mark - Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 156/45)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: The Body Shop International plc (Littlehampton, United Kingdom) (represented by: I. Vernimme, H. Viaene, S. Vandewynckel and D. Gillet, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Spa Monopole, compagnie fermière de Spa SA/NV (Spa, Belgium) (represented by: E. Cornu and E. De Gryse, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 16 January 2014 (Case R 1516/2012-4), relating to opposition proceedings between The Body Shop International plc and Spa Monopole, compagnie fermière de Spa SA/NV.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders The Body Shop International plc to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 235, 21.7.2014.