CELEX: 62011TA0378
Language: en
Date: 2013-02-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-378/11: Judgment of the General Court of 20 February 2013 — Langguth Erben v OHIM (MEDINET) (Community trade mark — Application for the Community figurative mark MEDINET — Earlier national and international figurative marks MEDINET — Claim of seniority of the earlier national and international marks — Earlier marks in colour and Community trade mark applied for not designating any specific colour — Signs not identical — Article 34 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Obligation to state reasons — Article 75 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Expediency of oral proceedings — Article 77 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

13.4.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 108/23
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 20 February 2013 — Langguth Erben v OHIM (MEDINET)
   (Case T-378/11) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Application for the Community figurative mark MEDINET - Earlier national and international figurative marks MEDINET - Claim of seniority of the earlier national and international marks - Earlier marks in colour and Community trade mark applied for not designating any specific colour - Signs not identical - Article 34 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Obligation to state reasons - Article 75 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Expediency of oral proceedings - Article 77 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2013/C 108/60
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Franz Wilhelm Langguth Erben GmbH & Co. KG (Traben-Trarbach, Germany) (represented by: R. Kunze and G. Würtenberger, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: K. Klüpfel and G. Schneider, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 10 May 2011 (Case R 1598/2010-4) relating to a claim of seniority of earlier marks in an application for registration of the figurative sign MEDINET as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Franz Wilhelm Langguth Erben GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 269, 10.9.2011.