CELEX: 62020TA0366
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-366/20: Judgment of the General Court of 12 January 2022 — 1031023 B.C. v EUIPO — Bodegas San Valero (Representation of a circle drawn by a brush) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for an EU figurative mark representing a circle drawn by a brush — Earlier national figurative mark ORIGIUM 1944 — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

14.3.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 119/34
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 January 2022 — 1031023 B.C. v EUIPO — Bodegas San Valero (Representation of a circle drawn by a brush)
      (Case T-366/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for an EU figurative mark representing a circle drawn by a brush - Earlier national figurative mark ORIGIUM 1944 - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2022/C 119/44)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: 1031023 B.C. Ltd (Richmond, British Columbia, Canada) (represented by: M. González Gordon, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Bodegas San Valero, S. Coop. (Cariñena, Spain) (represented by: J. García Domínguez, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 9 March 2020 (Case R 2142/2019-1) relating to opposition proceedings between Bodegas San Valero and 1031023 B.C.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders 1031023 B.C. Ltd to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Bodegas San Valero, S. Coop.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 255, 3.8.2020.