CELEX: 62014TN0145
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-145/14: Action brought on 3 March 2014 — adidas v OHIM — Shoe Branding Europe (Device of two parallel stripes)

28.4.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 129/35
            
         Action brought on 3 March 2014 — adidas v OHIM — Shoe Branding Europe (Device of two parallel stripes)
   (Case T-145/14)
   2014/C 129/42
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: adidas (Herzogenaurach, Germany) (represented by: V. von Bomhard and J. Fuhrmann, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Shoe Branding Europe BVBA (Oudenaarde, Belgium)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               Annul the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 28 November 2013 given in Case R 1208/2012-2;
            
         
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               Order the defendant to pay the costs of proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The mark (‘other type of mark’) for footwear in Class 25 — Community trade mark application No 8 398 141
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The applicant
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Community trade mark registrations Nos 3 517 646, 3 517 612, 3 517 588, 3 517 661, 4 269 072, 6 081 889; German trade mark registrations Nos 944 624, 944 623, 399 50 559, 897 134; International trade mark registration No 391 692 for goods in Classes 18, 25 and 28; and non-registered mark/sign used in the course of trade in Germany
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Rejected the opposition
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissed the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Articles 8(1)(b) and 8(4) CTMR.