Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 8.5.2017 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 144/38 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 16 March 2017 — Sociedad agraria de transformación No 9982 Montecitrus v EUIPO — Spanish Oranges (MOUNTAIN CITRUS SPAIN)

(Case T-495/15)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2017144EN.01003801-E0001)

((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU figurative mark MOUNTAIN CITRUS SPAIN - Earlier EU figurative mark monteCitrus - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Identity of the goods - No similarity between the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

(2017/C 144/50)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Sociedad agraria de transformación No 9982 Montecitrus (Pulpí, Spain) (represented by: N. Fernández Fernández-Pacheco, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Schifko and K. Sidat Humphreys, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Spanish Oranges, SL (Castellón, Spain) (represented by: F. Perez Arnau, lawyer)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 26 June 2015 (Case R 871/2014-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Sociedad agraria de transformación No 9982 Montecitrus and Spanish Oranges

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Sociedad agraria de transformación No 9982 Montecitrus to pay the costs. |

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