CELEX: 62014TA0804
Language: en
Date: 2016-07-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-804/14: Judgment of the General Court of 21 July 2016 — Ogrodnik v EUIPO — Aviário Tropical (Tropical) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark Tropical — Earlier national word mark TROPICAL — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Extent of the applicant’s rights under national law — Coexistence of the marks — Obligation to state reasons — Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009)

5.9.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 326/23
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 21 July 2016 — Ogrodnik v EUIPO — Aviário Tropical (Tropical)
   (Case T-804/14) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark Tropical - Earlier national word mark TROPICAL - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Extent of the applicant’s rights under national law - Coexistence of the marks - Obligation to state reasons - Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 326/42)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Tadeusz Ogrodnik (Chorzów, Poland) (represented by: A. von Mühlendahl and H. Hartwig, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Garrido Otaola, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Aviário Tropical, SA (Loures, Portugal)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 22 September 2014 (Case R 1948/2013-4) relating to invalidity proceedings between Aviário Tropical and Mr Ogrodnik.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 22 September 2014 (Case R 1948/2013-4);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Mr Tadeusz Ogrodnik.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 65, 23.2.2015.