Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 1.2.2021 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 35/42 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 9 December 2020 — Repsol v EUIPO — Basic (BASIC)

(Case T-722/18) [(1)](#ntr1-C_2021035EN.01004202-E0001)

(EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark BASIC - Earlier national trade names basic and basic AG - Relative grounds for refusal - Use in the course of trade of a sign of more than mere local significance - Article 8(4) and Article 53(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(4) and Article 60(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Declaration of partial invalidity - Decision taken following the annulment of an earlier decision by the General Court - Referral of the case back to a Board of Appeal - Lack of competence of the authority referring the case - Article 1(d) of Regulation (EC) No 216/96 - Cross-claim)

(2021/C 35/54)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Repsol, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J.-B. Devaureix and J.C. Erdozain López, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: 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: Basic AG Lebensmittelhandel (Munich, Germany) (represented by: D. Altenburg, lawyer)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 22 August 2018 (Case R 178/2018-2), relating to invalidity proceedings between Basic Lebensmittelhandel and Repsol.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 22 August 2018 (Case R 178/2018-2); |

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| 2. | Declares that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the cross-claim; |

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| 3. | Orders EUIPO and Basic AG Lebensmittelhandel to bear their own costs and each to pay half of the costs incurred by Repsol, SA. |

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