CELEX: 62017TA0159
Language: en
Date: 2018-03-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-159/17: Judgment of the General Court of 8 March 2018 — Claro Sol Cleaning v EUIPO — Solemo (Claro Sol Facility Services desde 1972) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU figurative mark Claro Sol Facility Services desde 1972 — Earlier national figurative mark SOL — 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))

23.4.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 142/50
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 8 March 2018 — Claro Sol Cleaning v EUIPO — Solemo (Claro Sol Facility Services desde 1972)
   (Case T-159/17) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU figurative mark Claro Sol Facility Services desde 1972 - Earlier national figurative mark SOL - 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)))
   (2018/C 142/66)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Claro Sol Cleaning, SLU (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: N. Fernández Fernández-Pacheco, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: L. Rampini, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Solemo Oy (Helsinki, Finland) (represented by: M. Müller and A. Fottner, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 9 January 2017 (Case R 478/2016-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Solemo and Claro Sol Cleaning.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 9 January 2017 (Case R 478/2016-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Solemo Oy to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Claro Sol Cleaning, SLU;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 195, 19.6.2017.