CELEX: C2007/199/82
Language: en
Date: 2007-08-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-230/07: Action brought on 2 July 2007 — Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve v OHIM — Ester C (ESTER-E)

25.8.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 199/43
            
         Action brought on 2 July 2007 — Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve v OHIM — Ester C (ESTER-E)
   (Case T-230/07)
   (2007/C 199/82)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: K. Manhaeve, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Ester C Company (Prescott, United States)
   Form of order sought
   
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               Annul the decision of the Second Board of Appeal R 737/2006-2 of 17 April 2007;
            
         
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               order the defendant and — if applicable — Ester C Company to pay all the costs (jointly and severally).
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Applicant for the Community trade mark: The Ester C Company
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The Community word mark ‘ESTER-E’ for goods and services in Class 3 and 5 — application No 3163946
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Laboratorios Del Dr. Esteve SA
   
      Mark or sign cited: The Community figurative mark ‘ESTEVE’ for goods in Class 1, 5 and 42 and the national figurative mark ‘ESTEVE’ and ‘ESTEVE-LABORATORIO DEL DR. ESTEVE S.A.’ for goods in Class 5
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Upheld the opposition in its entirety
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Rejected the opposition
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94.