CELEX: 62019TA0802
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-802/19: Judgment of the General Court of 25 November 2020 — Kisscolor Living v EUIPO — Teoxane (KISS COLOR) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark KISS COLOR — Earlier EU word mark KISS — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Temporal application of the law)

25.1.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 28/43
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 25 November 2020 — Kisscolor Living v EUIPO — Teoxane (KISS COLOR)
      (Case T-802/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark KISS COLOR - Earlier EU word mark KISS - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Temporal application of the law)
      (2021/C 28/65)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Kisscolor Living GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany) (represented by: T. Büttner, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Söder, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Teoxane SA (Geneva, Switzerland)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 16 September 2019 (Case R 2167/2018-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Teoxane and Kisscolor Living.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Kisscolor Living GmbH to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 45, 10.2.2020.