CELEX: 62012TN0025
Language: en
Date: 2012-01-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-25/12: Action brought on 17 January 2012 — 3M Pumps v OHIM — 3M (3M Pumps)

31.3.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 98/23
            
         Action brought on 17 January 2012 — 3M Pumps v OHIM — 3M (3M Pumps)
   (Case T-25/12)
   2012/C 98/38
   Language in which the application was lodged: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: 3M Pumps Srl (Taglio di Po, Italy) (represented by: F. Misuraca, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: 3M Company (St. Paul, United States)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annul the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 27 October 2011 in Case R 2406/2010-1.
            
         
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               Order the defendant to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: 3M Pumps Srl
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Figurative mark containing the word element ‘3M Pumps’, for goods and services in Classes 7, 16 and 38
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: 3M Company
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Figurative mark containing the word element ‘3M’, for goods and services in Classes 7, 16 and 38
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Opposition upheld
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(a) and (b) and (5) of Regulation No 207/2009.