CELEX: 62019TA0028
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-28/19: Judgment of the General Court of 19 December 2019 — Karlovarské minerální vody v EUIPO — Aguas de San Martín de Veri (VERITEA) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark VERITEA — Earlier EU word mark VERI — AGUA PURA DEL PIRINEO — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Obligation to state reasons)

24.2.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 61/33
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 19 December 2019 — Karlovarské minerální vody v EUIPO — Aguas de San Martín de Veri (VERITEA)
      (Case T-28/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark VERITEA - Earlier EU word mark VERI - AGUA PURA DEL PIRINEO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Obligation to state reasons)
      (2020/C 61/40)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Karlovarské minerální vody a.s. (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic) (represented by: J. Mrázek, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: L. Lapinskaite, 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: Aguas de San Martín de Veri, SA (Bisaurri, Spain) (represented by: P. González-Bueno Catalán de Ocón, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 8 November 2018 (Case R 499/2018-5), relating to opposition proceedings between Aguas de San Martín de Veri and Karlovarské minerální vody.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  
                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Karlovarské minerální vody a.s. to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 82, 4.3.2019.