CELEX: 62012TN0218
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-218/12: Action brought on 22 May 2012 — Micrus Endovascular v OHIM — Laboratorios Delta (DELTA)

21.7.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/26
            
         Action brought on 22 May 2012 — Micrus Endovascular v OHIM — Laboratorios Delta (DELTA)
   (Case T-218/12)
   2012/C 217/55
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Micrus Endovascular LLC (Wilmington, United States) (represented by: B. Brandreth, Barrister)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Laboratorios Delta Lda (Queluz, Portugal)
   
      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 6 March 2012 in case R 244/2011-2; and
            
         
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               Order that the respondent pays the applicant its costs incurred before the Board of Appeal and the General Court.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: The applicant
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The word mark ‘DELTA’, for goods in class 10 — Community trade mark application No 6655906
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: International trade mark registration No 131374 of the figurative mark ‘DELTA PORTUGAL’, for goods in class 5; Portuguese trade mark registration No 140578 of the figurative mark ‘DELTA PORTUGAL’, for goods in class 5; Registered trade name No 23113 ‘LABORATORIOS DELTA’
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Upheld the opposition
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissed the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Council Regulation No 207/2009.