CELEX: 62015TB0295
Language: en
Date: 2016-04-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-295/15: Order of the General Court of 18 April 2016 — Zhang v EUIPO — K & L Ruppert Stiftung (Anna Smith) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark Anna Smith — Earlier EU word mark SMITH — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

6.6.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 200/21
            
         Order of the General Court of 18 April 2016 — Zhang v EUIPO — K & L Ruppert Stiftung (Anna Smith)
   (Case T-295/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark Anna Smith - Earlier EU word mark SMITH - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law))
   (2016/C 200/29)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Yongyu Zhang (Manchester, United Kingdom) (represented by: M. Steinert, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (represented by: S. Hanne, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO intervening before the General Court: K & L Ruppert Stiftung & Co. Handels-KG (Weilheim, Germany) (represented by: A. Kockläuner and O. Nilgen, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 27 February 2015 (Case R 1559/2014-5) concerning opposition proceedings between K & L Ruppert Stiftung & Co. Handels-KG et M. Yongyu Zhang.
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Yongyu Zhang to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 262, 10.8.2015.