CELEX: 62011TA0453
Language: en
Date: 2014-10-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-453/11: Judgment of the General Court of 21 October 2014 — Szajner v OHIM — Forge de Laguiole (LAGUIOLE) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community word mark LAGUIOLE — Earlier French company name Forge de Laguiole — Article 53(1)(c) and Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

1.12.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 431/18
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 21 October 2014 — Szajner v OHIM — Forge de Laguiole (LAGUIOLE)
   (Case T-453/11) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community word mark LAGUIOLE - Earlier French company name Forge de Laguiole - Article 53(1)(c) and Article 8(4) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2014/C 431/31)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Gilbert Szajner (Niort, France) (represented by: A. Lakits-Josse, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Forge de Laguiole SARL (Laguiole, France) (represented by: F. Fajgenbaum, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 1 June 2011 (Case R 181/2007-1) concerning invalidity proceedings between Forge de Laguiole SARL and Mr Gilbert Szajner.
   
      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 1 June 2011 (Case R 181/2007-1) in so far as it declares the Community word mark LAGUIOLE invalid in respect of goods other than ‘hand tools and implements (hand operated); spoons; saws, razors, razor blades; shaving cases; nail files and nail nippers, nail-clippers; manicure sets’ in Class 8, ‘paper-cutters’ in Class 16, ‘corkscrews; bottle-openers’ and ‘shaving brushes, fitted vanity cases’ in Class 21 and ‘cigar cutters’ and ‘pipe cleaners’ in Class 34;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Forge de Laguiole SARL to bear one quarter of the costs incurred by the applicant and three-quarters of its own costs;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders Mr Gilbert Szajner to bear one quarter of the costs incurred by Forge de Laguiole, one quarter of the costs incurred by OHIM and three-quarters of his own costs;
            
         
               5.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear three-quarters of its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 298, 8.10.2011.