CELEX: 62011TN0072
Language: en
Date: 2011-02-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-72/11: Action brought on 3 February 2011 — Sogepi Consulting y Publicidad v OHIM (ESPETEC)

9.4.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 113/15
            
         Action brought on 3 February 2011 — Sogepi Consulting y Publicidad v OHIM (ESPETEC)
   (Case T-72/11)
   2011/C 113/31
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Sogepi Consulting y Publicidad, SL (Vic, Spain) (represented by J.P. de Oliveira Vaz Miranda Sousa, T. Barceló Rebaque and N. Esteve Manasanch, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant requests the Court to:
   
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               annul and revoke the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 12 November 2010, in Case R 312/2010-2;
            
         
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               as a consequence allow registration of Community trade mark No 7.114.572 ‘ESPETEC’; and
            
         
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               order the defendant to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Word mark ‘ESPETEC’, for goods in Class 29
   
      Decision of the Examiner: Refusal of the mark applied for
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (1), since the term ‘ESPETEC’ is not devoid of distinctive character when considered independently of the goods applied for and infringement of Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 given the distortion and incorrect assessment of the evidence of use on the market of the mark ‘ESPETEC’.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1)