CELEX: 62021TA0146
Language: en
Date: 2022-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-146/21: Judgment of the General Court of 23 March 2022 — Vetpharma Animal Health v EUIPO — Deltavit (DELTATIC) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark DELTATIC — Earlier EU word mark DELTA — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Genuine use of the earlier mark — Article 18(1), second subparagraph, point (a), and Article 47(2) of Regulation 2017/1001 — Form differing in elements which do not alter the distinctive character)

16.5.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 198/42
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 23 March 2022 — Vetpharma Animal Health v EUIPO — Deltavit (DELTATIC)
      (Case T-146/21) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark DELTATIC - Earlier EU word mark DELTA - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Genuine use of the earlier mark - Article 18(1), second subparagraph, point (a), and Article 47(2) of Regulation 2017/1001 - Form differing in elements which do not alter the distinctive character)
      (2022/C 198/59)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Vetpharma Animal Health, SL (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: M. Escudero Pérez, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Deltavit (Janzé, France) (represented by: G. Barbaut, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 21 December 2020 (Case R 776/2020-5), relating to opposition proceedings between Deltavit and Vetpharma Animal Health.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Vetpharma Animal Health, SL, to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO);
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Deltavit to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 182, 10.5.2021.