CELEX: 62016TA0212
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-212/16: Judgment of the General Court of 5 December 2017 — El Corte Inglés v EUIPO — Elho Business & Sport (FRee STyLe) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark FRee STyLe — Absolute ground for refusal — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Article 76 of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 95 of Regulation 2017/1001) — Equal treatment)

19.3.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 104/33
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 5 December 2017 — El Corte Inglés v EUIPO — Elho Business & Sport (FRee STyLe)
   (Case T-212/16) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark FRee STyLe - Absolute ground for refusal - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Article 76 of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 95 of Regulation 2017/1001) - Equal treatment))
   (2018/C 104/42)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: El Corte Inglés, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J.L. Rivas Zurdo, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Bonne, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Elho Business & Sport Vertriebs GmbH (Obergriesbach, Germany) (represented by E. Warnke, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 February 2016 (Case R 377/2015-1), relating to invalidity proceedings between Elho Business & Sport and El Corte Inglés.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders El Corte Inglés, SA, to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 243, 4.7.2016.