Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 15.1.2018 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 13/14 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 20 November 2017 — Cotécnica v EUIPO — Visán Industrias Zootécnicas (cotecnica OPTIMA)

(Case T-465/16)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2018013EN.01001402-E0001)

((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark cotecnica OPTIMA - Earlier EU figurative mark visán Optima PREMIUM PETFOOD - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 [now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001]))

(2018/C 013/24)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Cotécnica, SCCL (Bellpuig, Spain) (represented by: J.-B. Devaureix, J. Erdozain López and J. Galán López, lawyers)

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

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Visán Industrias Zootécnicas, SL (Arganda, Spain) (represented by: P. Alesci Naranjo, lawyer)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 13 June 2016 (Case R 229/2016-2), relating to opposition proceedings between Visán Industrias Zootécnicas and Cotécnica.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Cotécnica, SCCL to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO); |

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| 3. | Orders Visán Industrias Zootécnicas, SL to bear its own costs. |

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