CELEX: 62012TA0444
Language: en
Date: 2014-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-444/12: Judgment of the General Court of 16 October 2014  — Novartis v OHIM — Tenimenti Angelini (LINEX) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark LINEX — Earlier national word mark LINES PERLA — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 76(1), in fine, of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009)

24.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 421/32
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 October 2014 — Novartis v OHIM — Tenimenti Angelini (LINEX)
   (Case T-444/12) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark LINEX - Earlier national word mark LINES PERLA - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 76(1), in fine, of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009))
   2014/C 421/44
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland) (represented by: M. Douglas, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Bullock, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Tenimenti Angelini SpA (Montalcino, Italy) (represented by: R. Almaraz Palmero, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 6 August 2012 (Case R 414/2011-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Tenimenti Angelini SpA and Novartis AG.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 6 August 2012 (Case R 414/2011-4);
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the applicant;
            
         
               3)
            
            
               Orders the intervener to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 399, 22.12.2012.