CELEX: 62016TB0109
Language: en
Date: 2016-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-109/16: Order of the General Court of 18 October 2016 — Laboratoire de la mer v EUIPO — Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma (RESPIMER) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU word mark RESPIMER — Earlier EU word mark RESPIMAT — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

12.12.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 462/24
            
         Order of the General Court of 18 October 2016 — Laboratoire de la mer v EUIPO — Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma (RESPIMER)
   (Case T-109/16) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU word mark RESPIMER - Earlier EU word mark RESPIMAT - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law))
   (2016/C 462/31)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Laboratoire de la mer (Saint-Malo, France) (represented by: S. Szilvasi, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Hanf, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG (Ingelheim, Germany)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 21 January 2016 (Case R 3109/2014-5), relating to opposition proceedings between Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma and Laboratoire de la mer.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Laboratoire de la mer to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 165, 10.5.2016.