Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2020:257
Date: 2020-06-10
Language of the case: English
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: France

Judgment of the General Court of 10 June 2020 — Boyer v EUIPO — Philicon-97 (PHILIBON DEPUIS 1957 www.philibon.com) (Case T-718/18) 1 (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark PHILIBON DEPUIS 1957 www.philibon.com — Earlier national figurative mark PHILICON — Relative ground for refusal — Well-known trade mark within the meaning of Article 6bis of the Paris Convention — Article 8(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(2)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Boyer (Moissac, France) (represented by: É. Junca, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: L. Lapinskaite, A. Folliard-Monguiral, H. O’Neill and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Philicon-97 AD (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) (represented by: V. Pavlov and M. Lazarov, lawyers) Re: Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 10 October 2018 (Case R 374/2018-4), relating to invalidity proceedings between Philicon 97 and Boyer. Operative part of the judgment The Court: 1. Dismisses the action; 2. Orders Boyer to pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 54, 11.2.2019.