Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 1.8.2022 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 294/29 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 8 June 2022 — Polo Club Düsseldorf v EUIPO — Company Bridge and Life (POLO CLUB DÜSSELDORF EST. 1976)

(Case T-355/21) [(1)](#ntr1-C_2022294EN.01002901-E0001)

(EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark POLO CLUB, DÜSSELDORF EST. 1976 - Earlier national figurative mark POLO CLUB - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

(2022/C 294/42)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Polo Club Düsseldorf GmbH & Co. KG (Düsseldorf, Germany) (represented by: C. Weil, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: T. Frydendahl and J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Company Bridge and Life, SL (Elche, Spain) (represented by: J. Gracia Albero and D. Gómez Sánchez, lawyers)

Re:

By its action based on Article 263 TFEU, the applicant, Polo Club Düsseldorf GmbH & Co. KG, seeks, in essence, the annulment and alteration of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 26 April 2021 (Case R 1667/2020-1) (‘the contested decision’).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Polo Club Düsseldorf GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs, including those necessarily incurred by Company Bridge and Life, SL for the purposes of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). |

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