CELEX: 62011TN0568
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-568/11: Action brought on 26 October 2011 — Kokomarina v OHIM — Euro Shoe Unie (interdit de me gronder I D M G)

14.1.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 13/19
            
         Action brought on 26 October 2011 — Kokomarina v OHIM — Euro Shoe Unie (interdit de me gronder I D M G)
   (Case T-568/11)
   2012/C 13/39
   Language in which the application was lodged: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Kokomarina (Concarneau, France) (represented by: C. Charrière-Bournazel, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Euro Shoe Unie NV (Beringen, Belgium)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the General Court should:
   
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               declare Kokomarina’s action to be admissible;
            
         
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               annul the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 21 July 2011 in Case R 1814/2010-1;
            
         
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               dismiss the opposition brought by EURO SHOE UNIE NV against the application for registration as a Community trade mark of Kokomarina’s mark ‘I D M G — interdit de me gronder’.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: The applicant.
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Figurative mark containing the verbal element ‘interdit de me gronder I D M G’ for goods in class 25.
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Euro Shoe Unie NV.
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Benelux word mark ‘DMG’ for goods in Classes 18, 25 and 35.
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Opposition upheld.
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed.
   
      Pleas in law: Lack of use of the opposed mark and no likelihood of confusion.