Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 13.1.2020 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 10/33 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 14 November 2019 — Société des produits Nestlé v EUIPO — Jumbo Africa (Representation of a human figure on an escutcheon)

(Case T-149/19) [(1)](#ntr1-C_2020010EN.01003302-E0001)

(EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for an EU figurative mark representing the shape of a human figure on an escutcheon - EU figurative mark representing the shape of a human figure - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Power to alter decisions)

(2020/C 10/45)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Société des produits Nestlé SA (Vevey, Switzerland) (represented by: A. Jaeger Lenz, A. Lambrecht and C. Elkemann, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: M. Capostagno and H. O’Neill, Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Jumbo Africa, SL (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 30 November 2018 (Case R 876/2018-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Jumbo Africa and Société des produits Nestlé.

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 30 November 2018 (Case R 876/2018-2); |

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| 2. | Dismisses the appeal brought before EUIPO by Jumbo Africa, SL; |

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| 3. | Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Société des produits Nestlé SA for the purposes of the proceedings before the General Court; |

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| 4. | Orders Jumbo Africa to pay the cost necessarily incurred by Société des produits Nestlé for the purposes of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO; |

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| 5. | Dismisses the action as to the remainder. |

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