CELEX: 62014TA0544
Language: en
Date: 2015-11-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-544/14: Judgment of the General Court of 12 November 2015 — Société des produits Nestlé v OHIM — Terapia (ALETE) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community word mark ALETE — Earlier national word mark ALETA — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Suspension of the administrative proceedings — Rule 20(7)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95)

11.1.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 7/26
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 November 2015 — Société des produits Nestlé v OHIM — Terapia (ALETE)
   (Case T-544/14) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark ALETE - Earlier national word mark ALETA - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Suspension of the administrative proceedings - Rule 20(7)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95))
   (2016/C 007/35)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Société des produits Nestlé SA (Vevey, Switzerland) (represented by: A. Jaeger-Lenz, A. Lambrecht and S. Cobet-Nüse, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Schneider, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Terapia SA (Cluj Napoca, Romania)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 19 May 2014 (Case R 1128/2013-4) concerning opposition proceedings between Terapia SA and Société des produits Nestlé SA.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 19 May 2014 (Case R 1128/2013-4);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Société des produits Nestlé.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 339, 29.9.2014.