Judgment of the General Court of 8 October 2014 — Laboratoires Polive v OHIM — Arbora & Ausonia (dodie)

(Cases T-122/13 and T-123/13) ¹

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark dodie — Earlier national word marks DODOT — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Laboratoires Polive (Levallois-Perret, France) (represented by: A. Sion, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Geroulakos, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Arbora & Ausonia, SLU (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: R. Guerras Mazón, lawyer)

Re:

Two actions brought against two decisions of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 28 November 2012 (Cases R 2324/2011-2 and R 2325/2011-2, respectively) relating to two sets of opposition proceedings between Arbora & Ausonia, SLU and Laboratoires Polive.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Joins Cases T-122/13 and T-123/13 for the purposes of the judgment;

Annuls the decisions of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 28 November 2012 (Cases R 2324/2011-2 and R 2325/2011-2);

Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Laboratoires Polive;

Orders Arbora & Ausonia, SLU to bear its own costs.

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¹     OJ C 123, 27.4.2013.