Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2019:568
Date: 2019-09-10
Language of the case: Spanish
Court formation: First Chamber
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - successful

Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2019 — Oakley v EUIPO — Xuebo Ye (Representation of a discontinuous ellipse) (Case T-744/18) 1 (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for an EU figurative mark representing a discontinuous ellipse — Earlier EU figurative mark representing an ellipse — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) Language of the case: Spanish Parties Applicant: Oakley, Inc. (Foothill Ranch, California, United States) (represented by: E. Ochoa Santamaría and I. Aparicio Martínez, lawyers) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Palmero Cabezas and H. O’Neill, acting as Agents) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Xuebo Ye (Wenzhou, China) Re: Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 22 October 2018 (Case R 692/2018-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Oakley and Xuebo Ye. Operative part of the judgment The Court: 1. Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 22 October 2018 (Case R 692/2018-1); 2. Orders EUIPO to pay the costs, including those incurred by Oakley, Inc. ____________ 1 OJ C 65, 18.2.2019.