18.1.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 16/37


Judgment of the General Court of 25 November 2015 — Soprema v OHIM — Sopro Bauchemie (SOPRAPUR)

(Case T-763/14) (1)

((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - International registration designating the European Community - Word mark SOPRAPUR - Prior Community word mark Sopro - Relative ground for refusal - Similarity of the goods and the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

(2016/C 016/45)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Holding Soprema (Strasbourg, France) (represented by: M.-R. Hirsch, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: E. Scheffer and A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Sopro Bauchemie GmbH (Wiesbaden, Germany)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 August 2014 (Case R 1370/2013-2) concerning opposition proceedings between Sopro Bauchemie GmbH and Holding Soprema.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action;

2.

Orders Holding Sopremo to pay the costs.


(1)  OJ C 73, 2.3.2015.