Judgment;Information — ECLI:EU:T:2022:153
Date: 2022-03-23
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Third Chamber
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Spain

Judgment of the General Court of 23 March 2022 – Ionfarma v EUIPO – LG Electronics (AION) (Case T-465/21) 1 (EU trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the EU word mark AION – Earlier national figurative mark ION and earlier word mark IONFARMA – Relative ground for refusal – No similarity of the goods – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Ionfarma, SL (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: S. Correa Rodríguez, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: L. Lapinskaite and J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agents) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: LG Electronics, Inc. (Seoul, South Korea) Re: Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 25 May 2021 (Case R 2223/2020-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Ionfarma and LG Electronics. Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Ionfarma, SL to pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 382, 20.9.2021.