Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 23 September 2009. – GlaxoSmithkline SpA and Others v European Union Intellectual Property Office.

Subject of the case

Re:

Three actions brought against the decisions of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 14 September 2007 (Case R 8/2007-1), 20 November 2007 (Case R 10/2007-1) and 19 November 2007 (Case R 9/2007-1), relating to cancellation proceedings between, on the one hand, GlaxoSmithkline SpA, Laboratórios Wellcome De Portugal L da and The Wellcome Foundation Ltd, and, on the other, Serono Genetics Institute SA.

Information relating to the case

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Operative part

The Court:

1. Joins Cases T-493/07, T-26/08 and T-27/08 for the purposes of the present judgment;

2. Dismisses the actions;

3. Orders GlaxoSmithKline SpA, Laboratórios Wellcome de Portugal, L da and The Wellcome Foundation Ltd to pay the costs.