CELEX: 62015TA0495
Language: en
Date: 2017-03-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-495/15: Judgment of the General Court of 16 March 2017 — Sociedad agraria de transformación No 9982 Montecitrus v EUIPO — Spanish Oranges (MOUNTAIN CITRUS SPAIN) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU figurative mark MOUNTAIN CITRUS SPAIN — Earlier EU figurative mark monteCitrus — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Identity of the goods — No similarity between the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

8.5.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 144/38
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 March 2017 — Sociedad agraria de transformación No 9982 Montecitrus v EUIPO — Spanish Oranges (MOUNTAIN CITRUS SPAIN)
   (Case T-495/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU figurative mark MOUNTAIN CITRUS SPAIN - Earlier EU figurative mark monteCitrus - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Identity of the goods - No similarity between the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 144/50)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Sociedad agraria de transformación No 9982 Montecitrus (Pulpí, Spain) (represented by: N. Fernández Fernández-Pacheco, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Schifko and K. Sidat Humphreys, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Spanish Oranges, SL (Castellón, Spain) (represented by: F. Perez Arnau, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 26 June 2015 (Case R 871/2014-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Sociedad agraria de transformación No 9982 Montecitrus and Spanish Oranges
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Sociedad agraria de transformación No 9982 Montecitrus to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 354, 26.10.2015.