CELEX: 62012TA0300
Language: en
Date: 2014-10-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-300/12: Judgment of the General Court of 8 October 2014  — Lidl Stiftung v OHIM — A Colmeia do Minho (FAIRGLOBE) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark FAIRGLOBE — Earlier national word marks GLOBO — Relative ground for refusal — No proof of genuine use of the earlier marks — Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Rule 22(3) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95)

17.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 409/34
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 8 October 2014 — Lidl Stiftung v OHIM — A Colmeia do Minho (FAIRGLOBE)
   (Case T-300/12) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark FAIRGLOBE - Earlier national word marks GLOBO - Relative ground for refusal - No proof of genuine use of the earlier marks - Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Rule 22(3) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95))
   2014/C 409/48
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (Neckarsulm, Germany) (represented by: M. Wolter and A. Berger, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: A Colmeia do Minho Ld
      a (Aldeia de Paio Pires, Portugal)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 2 April 2012 (Case R 1981/2010-2) concerning opposition proceedings between A Colmeia do Minho Ld
      a and Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 2 April 2012 (Case R 1981/2010-2), concerning opposition proceedings between A Colmeia do Minho Ld
                  a and Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG, in that it found that genuine use of the earlier marks had been demonstrated to the requisite legal standard;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Lidl Stiftung & Co.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 273, 8.9.2012.