Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 30.5.2016 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 191/27 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 14 April 2016 — Henkell & Co. Sektkellerei v EUIPO — Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona di Bianchini (PICCOLOMINI)

(Case T-20/15)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2016191EN.01002701-E0001)

((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark PICCOLOMINI - Earlier EU word mark PICCOLO - No genuine use of the earlier mark - Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

(2016/C 191/34)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Henkell & Co. Sektkellerei KG (Wiesbaden, Germany) (represented by: J. Flick, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Kusturovic and A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona di Bianchini Società Agricola (Milan, Italy) (represented by F. Cecchi, P. Pozzi and F. Ghisletti Giovanni, lawyers)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 31 October 2014 (Case R 2265/2013-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Henkell & Co. Sektkellerei KG and Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona di Bianchini Società Agricola.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Henkell & Co. Sektkellerei KG to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona di Bianchini Società Agricola. |

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