CELEX: 62017TA0378
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-378/17: Judgment of the General Court of 7 December 2018 — La Zaragozana v EUIPO — Heineken Italia (CERVISIA) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark CERVISIA — Earlier national word mark CERVISIA AMBAR — Relative ground for refusal — Similarity of the signs — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

25.2.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 72/27
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 7 December 2018 — La Zaragozana v EUIPO — Heineken Italia (CERVISIA)
      (Case T-378/17) (1)
      
      ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark CERVISIA - Earlier national word mark CERVISIA AMBAR - Relative ground for refusal - Similarity of the signs - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)))
      (2019/C 72/34)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: La Zaragozana, SA (Saragossa, Spain) (represented by: L. Broschat García and A.M. Santos Pribañez, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas and H. O’Neill, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Heineken Italia SpA (Pollein, Italy) (represented by: P. Pozzi and G. Ghisletti, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 13 March 2017 (Case R 1241/2016-5) concerning opposition proceedings between La Zaragozana and Heineken Italia.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 13 March 2017 (Case R 1241/2016-5);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders each party to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 256, 7.8.2017.