CELEX: 62013TA0341
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-341/13: Judgment of the General Court of 23 September 2014  — Groupe Léa Nature v OHIM — Debonair Trading Internacional (SO’BiO ētic) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark SO’BiO ētic — Earlier Community and national word and figurative marks SO…? — Relative grounds for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Lack of genuine use of the earlier mark — Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009)

3.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 388/16
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 23 September 2014 — Groupe Léa Nature v OHIM — Debonair Trading Internacional (SO’BiO ētic)
   (Case T-341/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark SO’BiO ētic - Earlier Community and national word and figurative marks SO…? - Relative grounds for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Lack of genuine use of the earlier mark - Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009))
   2014/C 388/19
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Groupe Léa Nature SA (Périgny, France) (represented by: S. Arnaud, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Geroulakos and V. Melgar, Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervener before the General Court: Debonair Trading Internacional Lda (Funchal, Portugal) (represented by: T. Alkin, Barrister)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 26 March 2013 (Case R 203/2011-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Debonair Trading Internacional Lda and Groupe Léa Nature SA.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 26 March 2013 (Case R 203/2011-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM and Debonair Trading Internacional Lda each to bear their own costs, and to pay the costs of Groupe Léa Nature SA.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 260, 7.9.2013.