CELEX: 62019TA0382
Language: en
Date: 2021-01-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-382/19: Judgment of the General Court of 27 January 2021 — Turk Hava Yollari v EUIPO — Sky (skylife) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — International registration designating the European Union — Word mark skylife — Earlier EU word mark SKY — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

15.3.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 88/27
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 27 January 2021 — Turk Hava Yollari v EUIPO — Sky (skylife)
      (Case T-382/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - International registration designating the European Union - Word mark skylife - Earlier EU word mark SKY - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
      (2021/C 88/35)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Turk Hava Yollari AO (Istanbul, Turkey) (represented by: R. Almaraz Palmero, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Sky Ltd (Isleworth, United Kingdom) (represented by: A. Brackenbury, Solicitor, and A. Zalewska, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 23 April 2019 (Case R 880/2018-4), relating to invalidity proceedings between Sky and Turk Hava Yollari.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Turk Hava Yollari AO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Sky Ltd.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 270, 12.8.2019.