CELEX: 62017TA0186
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-186/17: Judgment of the General Court of 3 October 2018 — Unipreus v EUIPO — Wallapop (wallapop) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark wallapop — Prior national figurative mark wala w — 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) — Similarity of the services)

26.11.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 427/53
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 3 October 2018 — Unipreus v EUIPO — Wallapop (wallapop)
      (Case T-186/17) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark wallapop - Prior national figurative mark wala w - 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) - Similarity of the services)
      (2018/C 427/68)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Unipreus, SL (Lleida, Spain) (represented by: C. Rivadulla Oliva, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (represented by: D. Bernabeu, D. Gája and J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Wallpop, SL, (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: X. Fàbrega Sabaté and J. Sánchez Sánchez-Crespo, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 January 2017 (Case R 2350/2015-5) concerning opposition proceedings between Unipreus and Wallapop.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 January 2017, in so far as it found that the services at issue in Case R 2350/2015-5 were different;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Unipreus, SL;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders Wallapop, SL, to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 161, 22.5.2017.