CELEX: 62012TA0495
Language: en
Date: 2014-06-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-495/12 to T-497/12: Judgment of the General Court of 5 June 2014  — European Drinks SA v OHIM — Alexandrion Grup Romania (Dracula Bite and DRACULA BITE) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative marks Dracula Bite and DRACULA BITE — Earlier national figurative mark Dracula — Absence of genuine use of the earlier mark — Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

21.7.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 235/16
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 5 June 2014 — European Drinks SA v OHIM — Alexandrion Grup Romania (Dracula Bite and DRACULA BITE)
   (Case T-495/12 to T-497/12) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative marks Dracula Bite and DRACULA BITE - Earlier national figurative mark Dracula - Absence of genuine use of the earlier mark - Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   2014/C 235/21
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Drinks SA (Ştei, Romania) (represented by: V. von Bomhard, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: V. Melgar, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: SC Alexandrion Grup Romania Srl (Pleasa, Romania) (represented by: I. Niculeasa, G. Trantea and B. Mărculet, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Three actions brought against three decisions of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 6 September 2012 (Cases R 680/2011-4, R 682/2011-4 and R 679/2011-4), concerning three opposition proceedings between European Drinks SA and SC Alexandrion Grup Romania Srl.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Joins Cases T-495/12, T-496/12 and T-497/12 for the purposes of the judgment;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Dismisses the actions;
            
         
               3)
            
            
               Orders European Drinks SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 26, 26.1.2013.