CELEX: 62013TN0405
Language: en
Date: 2013-08-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-405/13: Action brought on 8 August 2013 — Le Comptoir d'Épicure v OHIM — A-Rosa Akademie (da rosa)

28.9.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 284/4
            
         Action brought on 8 August 2013 — Le Comptoir d'Épicure v OHIM — A-Rosa Akademie (da rosa)
   (Case T-405/13)
   2013/C 284/06
   Language in which the application was lodged: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Le Comptoir d'Épicure (Paris, France) (represented by: S. Arnaud, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: A-Rosa Akademie GmbH (Rostock, Germany)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 22 May 2013 in case R 1195/2012-5; and
            
         
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               order OHIM and A-Rosa Akademie GmbH to pay the costs
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Le Comptoir d'Épicure
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The international registration designating the European Union of the figurative mark with word elements ‘da rosa’ for goods and services in Classes 29, 30 and 43 — International registration No 1 047 095 designating the European Union
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: A-Rosa Akademie GmbH
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: National, international and Community word marks ‘aROSA’ and national and international figurative marks with the word elements ‘aROSA Lust auf Schiff’
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: The opposition is upheld in part
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: The action is dismissed
   
      Pleas in law:
   
   
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               First plea, alleging a contradiction in the reasoning , if not an excess of authority;
            
         
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               Second plea, alleging infringement of Articles 5, 34(1) and 35 of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Third plea, alleging infringement of Article 42(2) of Regulation No 207/2009, of Rule 22 of Regulation No 2868/95, and of Article 78(1) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Fourth plea, alleging infringement of general principles of law, of the hierarchy of legal rules and a manifest error of assessment;
            
         
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               Fifth plea, alleging infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Sixth plea, alleging infringement of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009 and Rule 22(2) and (3) of Regulation No 2868/95;
            
         
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               Seventh plea, alleging a manifest error concerning the relevant public and the assessment of the signs;
            
         
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               Eighth plea: the distinctive character of the earlier mark in Classes 39, 43 and 44.