Language of document :

Order of the General Court of 8 March 2011 - Herm. Sprenger v OHIM - Kieffer Sattlerwarenfabrik (Form of a stirrup)

(Case T-463/09) 1

(Community trade mark - Application for a declaration of invalidity - Withdrawal of that application - No need to give judgment)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Herm. Sprenger GmbH & Co. KG (Iserlohn, Germany) (represented by: V. Schiller, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: C. Jenewein and B. Schmidt, Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the General Court: Georg Kieffer Sattlerwarenfabrik GmbH (Munich, Germany) (represented by: N. Fischer, lawyer)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 September 2009 (Case R 1614/2008-4) relating to invalidity proceedings between Georg Kieffer Sattlerwarenfabrik GmbH and Herm. Sprenger GmbH & Co. KG.

Operative part of the order

1.    There is no longer any need to give judgment on the action.

2.    The applicant and the intervener shall each bear their own costs and half of the defendant's costs.

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1 - OJ C 11, 16.1.2010.