CELEX: 62014TN0459
Language: en
Date: 2014-06-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-459/14: Action brought on 18 June 2014  — Messi Cuccittini v OHIM — Pires Freitas Campos (LEO)

22.9.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 329/18
            
         Action brought on 18 June 2014 — Messi Cuccittini v OHIM — Pires Freitas Campos (LEO)
   (Case T-459/14)
   2014/C 329/26
   Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: J. Rivas Zurdo and M. Toro Gordillo, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Maria Leonor Pires Freitas Campos (Setúbal, Portugal)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the General Court should:
   
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               annul the Decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 27 March 2014 in Case R 1554/2013-1, in so far as by dismissing the applicant’s appeal, it confirmed the decision of the Opposition Division upholding opposition B 2009291 and refusing, in its entirety, Community trade mark application No 1 0 6 13  511‘LEO’;
            
         
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               order the party or parties who oppose this action to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Applicant
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Figurative mark with the word element ‘LEO’ for goods in Classes 32 and 33 — Community trade mark application No 1 0 6 13  511
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Maria Leonor Pires Freitas Campos
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: Word mark ‘LEO D’HONOR’ for goods in Class 33
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Opposition upheld
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009