CELEX: 62015CA0207
Language: en
Date: 2016-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-207/15 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 22 June 2016 — Nissan Jidosha KK v European Union Intellectual Property Office (Appeal — European Union trade mark — Figurative mark including the element ‘CVTC’ — Requests for renewal made in respect of some of the goods or services for which the mark is registered — Further period — Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 47 — Principle of legal certainty)

29.8.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 314/4
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 22 June 2016 — Nissan Jidosha KK v European Union Intellectual Property Office
   (Case C-207/15 P) (1)
   
   ((Appeal - European Union trade mark - Figurative mark including the element ‘CVTC’ - Requests for renewal made in respect of some of the goods or services for which the mark is registered - Further period - Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Article 47 - Principle of legal certainty))
   (2016/C 314/06)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Nissan Jidosha KK (represented by: B. Brandreth, Barrister, and D. Cañadas Arcas, abogada)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Hanf and A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agents)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Sets aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 4 March 2015 in Nissan Jidosha v OHIM (CVTC) (T-572/12, not published, EU:T:2015:136);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 6 September 2012 (Case R 2469/2011-1), relating to a request for renewal of the registration of the European Union figurative mark CVTC;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Nissan Jidosha KK both in relation to the proceedings at first instance in Case T-572/12 and to the appeal.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 262, 10.8.2015.