CELEX: 62014TN0253
Language: en
Date: 2014-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-253/14: Action brought on 14 April 2014  — Chemo Ibérica v OHIM — Novartis (EXELTIS)

4.8.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 253/31
            
         Action brought on 14 April 2014 — Chemo Ibérica v OHIM — Novartis (EXELTIS)
   (Case T-253/14)
   2014/C 253/45
   Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Chemo Ibérica, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: M.I. Escudero Pérez, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 10 February 2014 in Case R 1022/2013-4, and accordingly order that figurative Community trade mark No 1 0 2 49  035‘EXELTIS’ should be granted in relation to Class 5 of the International Classification;
            
         
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               order the defendant and/or the other party to the proceedings to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Chemo Ibérica, SA
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Figurative mark containing the word element ‘EXELTIS’ for goods in Class 5 — Community trade mark application No 1 0 2 49  035
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Novartis AG
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Word mark ‘EXELON’ for goods in Class 5
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Application rejected
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009.