CELEX: 62017TA0374
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-374/17: Judgment of the General Court of 10 October 2018 — Cuervo y Sobrinos 1882 v EUIPO — A. Salgado Nespereira (Cuervo y Sobrinos LA HABANA 1882) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark Cuervo y Sobrinos LA HABANA 1882 — Earlier national word marks CUERVO Y SOBRINO — Relative ground for refusal — Similarity of the goods — Similarity of the signs — Article 53(1)(a) and Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 60(1)(a) and Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Bad faith — Article 52(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 59(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

26.11.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 427/55
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 10 October 2018 — Cuervo y Sobrinos 1882 v EUIPO — A. Salgado Nespereira (Cuervo y Sobrinos LA HABANA 1882)
      (Case T-374/17) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark Cuervo y Sobrinos LA HABANA 1882 - Earlier national word marks CUERVO Y SOBRINO - Relative ground for refusal - Similarity of the goods - Similarity of the signs - Article 53(1)(a) and Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 60(1)(a) and Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Bad faith - Article 52(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 59(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
      (2018/C 427/71)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Cuervo y Sobrinos 1882, SL (Madrid, Spain) (represented initially by S. Ferrandis González and V. Balaguer Fuentes, and subsequently by S. Ferrandis González, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (represented by: A. Crawcour and D. Hanf, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: A. Salgado Nespereira, SA (Ourense, Spain) (represented by: J.L. Rivas Zurdo, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 29 March 2017 (Case R 1141/2016-4), relating to invalidity proceedings between A. Salgado Nespereira and Cuervo y Sobrinos 1882.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Dismisses the cross-claim;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Cuervo y Sobrinos 1882, SL to bear its own costs and to pay half of the costs incurred by EUIPO;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders A. Salgado Nespereira, SA to bear its own costs and to pay half of the costs incurred by EUIPO.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 256, 7.8.2017.