CELEX: 62020TA0483
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-483/20: Judgment of the General Court of 19 January 2022 — Tecnica Group v EUIPO — Zeitneu (Shape of a boot) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU three-dimensional mark — Shape of a boot — Declaration of partial invalidity — Absolute ground for refusal — No distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Decisions of EU trade mark courts ruling on an action for a declaration of non-infringement — Res judicata)

14.3.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 119/34
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 19 January 2022 — Tecnica Group v EUIPO — Zeitneu (Shape of a boot)
      (Case T-483/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU three-dimensional mark - Shape of a boot - Declaration of partial invalidity - Absolute ground for refusal - No distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Decisions of EU trade mark courts ruling on an action for a declaration of non-infringement - Res judicata)
      (2022/C 119/45)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Tecnica Group SpA (Giavera del Montello, Italy) (represented by: C. Sala, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Söder and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Zeitneu GmbH (Zürich, Switzerland) (represented by: K. Dumoulin, F. Hagemann, M. Giorcelli and M. Venturello, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 May 2020 (Case R 1093/2019-1), relating to invalidity proceedings between Zeitneu and Tecnica Group.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Tecnica Group SpA to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Zeitneu GmbH.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 320, 28.9.2020.