CELEX: 62015TA0609
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-609/15: Judgment of the General Court of 21 September 2017 — Repsol YPF v EUIPO — Basic (BASIC) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark BASIC — Earlier national trade names basic and basic AG — Relative ground for refusal — Use in the course of trade of a sign of more than mere local significance — Article 8(4) and Article 53(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

6.11.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 374/29
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 21 September 2017 — Repsol YPF v EUIPO — Basic (BASIC)
   (Case T-609/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark BASIC - Earlier national trade names basic and basic AG - Relative ground for refusal - Use in the course of trade of a sign of more than mere local significance - Article 8(4) and Article 53(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 374/43)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Repsol YPF, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented initially by J.-B. Devaureix and L. Montoya Terán, and subsequently by J. Erdozain López, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Hanf, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Basic AG Lebensmittelhandel (Munich, Germany) (represented by: D. Altenburg and H. Bickel, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 11 August 2015 (Case R 2384/2013-1), relating to invalidity proceedings between Basic Lebensmittelhandel and Repsol, SA.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 11 August 2015 (Case R 2384/2013-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and those incurred by Repsol YPF, SA;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Basic AG Lebensmittelhandel to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 27, 25.1.2016.