CELEX: 62018TA0428
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-428/18: Judgment of the General Court of 10 October 2019 – McDreams Hotel GmbH v EUIPO – McDonald’s International Property (mc dreams hotels Träumen zum kleinen Preis!) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark mc dreams hotels Träumen zum kleinen Preis! — Earlier EU word mark McDONALD’S — Article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Family of marks — Taking unfair advantage of the distinctive character or repute of the earlier mark)

16.12.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/39
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 10 October 2019 – McDreams Hotel GmbH v EUIPO – McDonald’s International Property (mc dreams hotels Träumen zum kleinen Preis!)
      (Case T-428/18) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark mc dreams hotels Träumen zum kleinen Preis! - Earlier EU word mark McDONALD’S - Article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Family of marks - Taking unfair advantage of the distinctive character or repute of the earlier mark)
      (2019/C 423/48)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: McDreams Hotel GmbH (Feldkirchen, Germany) (represented by: S. Schenk and S. Kleinmanns, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: V. Ruzek and H. O’Neill, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: McDonald’s International Property Co. Ltd (Wilmington, Delaware, United States) (represented by: C. Eckhartt and K. Thanbichler-Brandl, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 April 2018 (Case R 972/2017-2), relating to opposition proceedings between McDonald’s International Property Co. and McDreams Hotel.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders McDreams Hotel GmbH to bear its own costs and pay those of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the intervener.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 319, 10.9.2018.