CELEX: 62020TA0354
Language: en
Date: 2021-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-354/20: Judgment of the General Court of 24 March 2021 –Kfz-Gewerbes v EUIPO — The Blink Fish (Representation of a fish) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark representing a fish — Earlier national word mark BLINKA — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — No similarity between the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Obligation to state reasons — First sentence of Article 94(1) of Regulation 2017/1001)

7.6.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/43
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 24 March 2021 –Kfz-Gewerbes v EUIPO — The Blink Fish (Representation of a fish)
      (Case T-354/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark representing a fish - Earlier national word mark BLINKA - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - No similarity between the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Obligation to state reasons - First sentence of Article 94(1) of Regulation 2017/1001)
      (2021/C 217/57)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Wirtschaftsgesellschaft des Kfz-Gewerbes mbH (Bonn, Germany) (represented by: N. Hebeis, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: L. Lapinskaite, J. Crespo Carrillo and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: The Blink Fish Srl (Milan, Italy)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 6 April 2020 (Case R 2333/2019-4), relating to invalidity proceedings between Wirtschaftsgesellschaft des Kfz-Gewerbes and The Blink Fish.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Wirtschaftsgesellschaft des Kfz-Gewerbes mbH to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 262, 10.8.2020.