Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 8 September 2016 —

Real Express v EUIPO

(Case C‑309/15 P) (
[\*1](#t-ECR_62015CO0309_INF_EN_01-E0001)
)

‛Appeal — Article 181 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court — EU trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Blue and red figurative mark containing the word element ‘real’ — Opposition of the proprietor of the black and white national figurative marks containing the word elements ‘Real’ and ‘Real mark’ — Rejection of the opposition’

| 1. | Judicial proceedings — Application initiating proceedings — Formal requirements — Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — Unclear — Inadmissibility (Rules of Procedure of the General Court (1991), Art. 44(1)(c)) (see paras 46, 47) |

| 2. | Appeal — Grounds — Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence — Inadmissibility — Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see paras 56) |

| 3. | EU trade mark — Procedural provisions — Opposition proceedings — Formality required prior to the exercise of the right of opposition — Payment of the opposition fee — Scope (Commission Regulation No 2868/95, Art. 1, Rule 17(1) (see paras 62-64) |

| 4. | EU trade mark — Observations of third parties and opposition — Examination of the opposition — Facts and evidence not produced in support of the opposition within the period prescribed for that purpose — Continuation of the procedure for examining the opposition — Transmitting observations from the opponent to the applicant — Error of law — Effect limited to the lawfulness of the procedure before EUIPO (Commission Regulation No 2868/95, Art. 1, Rules 19 and 20(1) and (2)) (see paras 69-73) |

| 5. | EU trade mark — Appeals procedure — Appeal against a decision of the Opposition Division of EUIPO — Examination by the Board of Appeal — Scope — Facts and evidence not produced in support of the opposition within the period prescribed for that purpose — Account taken — Discretion of the Board of Appeal (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 76(2); Commission Regulation No 2868/95, Art. 1, Rule 19(2)(a)(ii)) (see paras 89, 90) |

Operative part

| 1. | The appeal is dismissed. |

| 2. | Real Express SRL shall bear its own costs and pay the costs of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and of MIP Metro Group Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG. |

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(
[\*1](#c-ECR_62015CO0309_INF_EN_01-E0001)
) [OJ C 398, 30.11.2015](./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=OJ:C:2015:398:TOC).

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