Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 9.9.2019 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 305/53 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2019 — mobile.de v EUIPO — Droujestvo S Ogranichena Otgovornost ‘Rezon’ (mobile.ro)

(Case T-412/18) [(1)](#ntr1-C_2019305EN.01005301-E0001)

(EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark mobile.ro - Earlier national figurative mark mobile - Genuine use of the earlier mark - Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001)

(2019/C 305/63)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: mobile.de GmbH (Dreilinden, Germany) (represented by: T. Lührig, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo and H. O’Neill, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Droujestvo S Ogranichena Otgovornost ‘Rezon’ (Sofia, Bulgaria) (represented by: M. Yordanova-Harizanova and V. Grigorova, lawyers)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 29 March 2018 (Case R 111/2015-1), relating to invalidity proceedings between Droujestvo S Ogranichena Otgovornost ‘Rezon’ and mobile.de.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders mobile.de GmbH to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Droujestvo S Ogranichena Otgovornost ‘Rezon’. |

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