CELEX: 62019TA0305
Language: en
Date: 2020-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-305/19: Judgment of the General Court of 8 July 2020 — Welmax +. v EUIPO — Valmex Medical Imaging (welmax) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — International registration designating the European Union — Word mark welmax — Earlier EU word mark valmex — Time limits for an appeal before the Board of Appeal — Delay — Point from which time starts to run — Notification — Proof of dispatch by registered post — Communication by email — Failure to comply with the obligation to pay the appeal fee within the time limit — Appeal deemed not to have been filed — Scope of the requests for regularisation — Article 68(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Articles 23 and 56 to 58 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625)

12.10.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 339/16
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 8 July 2020 — Welmax +. v EUIPO — Valmex Medical Imaging (welmax)
      (Case T-305/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - International registration designating the European Union - Word mark welmax - Earlier EU word mark valmex - Time limits for an appeal before the Board of Appeal - Delay - Point from which time starts to run - Notification - Proof of dispatch by registered post - Communication by email - Failure to comply with the obligation to pay the appeal fee within the time limit - Appeal deemed not to have been filed - Scope of the requests for regularisation - Article 68(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Articles 23 and 56 to 58 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625)
      (2020/C 339/19)
      Language of the case: Polish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Welmax + sp. z o.o. sp.k. (Poznań, Poland) (represented by: M. Machyński, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Walicka, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Valmex Medical Imaging GmbH (Augsbourg, Germany)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 22 March 2019 (Case R 2245/2018-5), relating to opposition proceedings between Valmex Medical Imaging and Welmax +.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Welmax + sp. z o.o. sp.k. to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 230, 8.7.2019.