CELEX: 62016TA0216
Language: en
Date: 2017-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-216/16: Judgment of the General Court of 23 March 2017 — Vignerons de la Méditerranée v EUIPO — Bodegas Grupo Yllera (LE VAL FRANCE) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark LE VAL FRANCE — Earlier EU word mark VIÑA DEL VAL — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

8.5.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 144/40
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 23 March 2017 — Vignerons de la Méditerranée v EUIPO — Bodegas Grupo Yllera (LE VAL FRANCE)
   (Case T-216/16) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark LE VAL FRANCE - Earlier EU word mark VIÑA DEL VAL - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 144/53)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Vignerons de la Méditerranée (Narbonne, France) (represented by: M. Karsenty-Ricard and M. Merli, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Bodegas Grupo Yllera SL (Rueda, Spain)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 2 March 2016 (Case R 427/2015-5) relating to opposition proceedings between Bodegas Grupo Yllera and Vignerons de la Méditerranée.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Vignerons de la Méditerranée to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 243, 4.7.2016.