CELEX: 62012TN0483
Language: en
Date: 2012-11-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-483/12: Action brought on 5 November 2012 — Nestlé Unternehmungen Deutschland v OHIM — Lotte (LOTTE)

26.1.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 26/53
            
         Action brought on 5 November 2012 — Nestlé Unternehmungen Deutschland v OHIM — Lotte (LOTTE)
   (Case T-483/12)
   2013/C 26/107
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Nestlé Unternehmungen Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (represented by: A. Jaeger-Lenz, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Lotte Co. Ltd (Tokyo, Japan)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annul the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 3 September 2012 in case R 2103/2010-4;
            
         
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               order the defendant to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Lotte Co. Ltd
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Figurative mark containing the word element ‘LOTTE’ and an image of a koala on a tree, holding a smaller koala, for goods in Class 30 — Community trade mark application 6 158 463
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Nestlé Unternehmungen Deutschland GmbH
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: National figurative marks containing the word elements ‘KOALA BÄREN’ and ‘KOALA’ and an image of a koala holding a smaller koala, for goods in Class 30
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Opposition allowed
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal granted; decision of the Opposition Division annulled
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009, Rule 22(2) of Regulation No 2868/95 and Article 15(1) of Regulation No 207/2009