CELEX: 62019TA0149
Language: en
Date: 2019-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-149/19: Judgment of the General Court of 14 November 2019 — Société des produits Nestlé v EUIPO — Jumbo Africa (Representation of a human figure on an escutcheon) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for an EU figurative mark representing the shape of a human figure on an escutcheon — EU figurative mark representing the shape of a human figure — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Power to alter decisions)

13.1.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 10/33
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 14 November 2019 — Société des produits Nestlé v EUIPO — Jumbo Africa (Representation of a human figure on an escutcheon)
      (Case T-149/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for an EU figurative mark representing the shape of a human figure on an escutcheon - EU figurative mark representing the shape of a human figure - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Power to alter decisions)
      (2020/C 10/45)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Société des produits Nestlé SA (Vevey, Switzerland) (represented by: A. Jaeger Lenz, A. Lambrecht and C. Elkemann, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: M. Capostagno and H. O’Neill, Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Jumbo Africa, SL (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 30 November 2018 (Case R 876/2018-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Jumbo Africa and Société des produits Nestlé.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  
                     Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 30 November 2018 (Case R 876/2018-2);
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Dismisses the appeal brought before EUIPO by Jumbo Africa, SL;
                  
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  
                     Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Société des produits Nestlé SA for the purposes of the proceedings before the General Court;
                  
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Jumbo Africa to pay the cost necessarily incurred by Société des produits Nestlé for the purposes of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO;
                  
               
            
                  5.
               
               
                  
                     Dismisses the action as to the remainder.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 155, 6.5.2019.