ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE FOURTH CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
29 June 2015 (1)
(Removal from the register)
In Case T-212/14,
PSL Ltd, established in Kowloon (Hong-Kong), represented by R. Dissmann, J. Bogatz, lawyers,
applicant,
v
Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), represented by A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent,
defendant,
the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM being
Consortium Menager Parisien, established in Paris (France),
ACTION brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM of 20 January 2014 (Case R 1495/2012-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Consortium Menager Parisien and PSL Ltd.
1 By letter lodged at the Registry of the General Court on 15 June 2015, the applicant informed the Court in accordance with Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure that it wished to discontinue proceedings. It sought no order as to costs.
2 By letter lodged at the Registry of the General Court on 25 June 2015, the defendant informed the Court that it had no objections to the discontinuance of the proceedings and requested that the applicant should be ordered to bear the costs.
3 According to the first subparagraph of Article 87(5) of the Rules of Procedure, a party who discontinues is to be ordered to pay the costs if they have been applied for in the observations of the other party on the discontinuance.
4 The case should therefore be removed from the register and the applicant ordered to bear its own costs and those of the defendant.
On those grounds,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FOURTH CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
hereby orders:
1. Case T-212/14 is removed from the register of the General Court.
2. The applicant shall bear its own costs and those incurred by the defendant.
Luxembourg, 29 June 2015.