CELEX: 62011CA0100
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-100/11 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 10 May 2012 — Helena Rubinstein, L’Oréal SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Allergan Inc. (Appeal — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 8(5) — Community word marks BOTOLIST and BOTOCYL — Community and national figurative and word marks BOTOX — Declaration of invalidity — Relative grounds for refusal — Damage to reputation)

30.6.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 194/4
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 10 May 2012 — Helena Rubinstein, L’Oréal SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Allergan Inc.
   (Case C-100/11 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Community trade mark - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 8(5) - Community word marks BOTOLIST and BOTOCYL - Community and national figurative and word marks BOTOX - Declaration of invalidity - Relative grounds for refusal - Damage to reputation)
   2012/C 194/05
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellants: Helena Rubinstein, L’Oréal SA (represented by: A. von Mühlendahl, Rechtsanwalt)
   
      Other parties to the proceedings: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent), Allergan Inc. (represented by: F. Clark, Barrister)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 16 December 2010 in Joined Cases T-345/08 and T-357/08 Rubinstein and l’Oréal v OHIM — Allergan (Botolist and Botocyl), by which the General Court dismissed an action for annulment brought by the proprietor of the Community word mark ‘BOTOLIST’ for goods classified in Class 3, against Decision R 863/2007-1 of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) of 28 May 2008, which set aside the decision of the Cancellation Division rejecting the application for a declaration of invalidity of that mark, submitted by the proprietor of the Community and national figurative and word marks ‘BOTOX’ for goods classified in Classes 5 and 16 and services classified in Class 42 — Interpretation and application of Art. 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Art. 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) — Relative grounds for refusal — Damage to reputation — Interpretation and application of Art. 73 of Regulation No 40/94 (now Art. 75 of Regulation No 207/2009) — Obligation to state reasons
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Helena Rubinstein SNC and L’Oréal SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 145, 14.5.2011.