CELEX: 62019TA0310
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-310/19: Judgment of the General Court of 25 November 2020 — BRF Singapore Foods v EUIPO — Tipiak (SADIA) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU word mark SADIA — Earlier national word mark SAIDA — 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) — Principle of sound administration — Equal treatment — Obligation to state reasons)

25.1.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 28/39
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 25 November 2020 — BRF Singapore Foods v EUIPO — Tipiak (SADIA)
      (Case T-310/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU word mark SADIA - Earlier national word mark SAIDA - 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) - Principle of sound administration - Equal treatment - Obligation to state reasons)
      (2021/C 28/60)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: BRF Singapore Foods Pte Ltd (Singapore, Singapore) (represented by: C. Mateu, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: L. Lapinskaite, J. Crespo Carrillo and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Tipiak (Saint-Aignan de Grand-Lieu, France) (represented by: M. Antoine-Lalance and M. Aïtelli, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 19 March 2019 (Case R 1857/2018-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Tipiak and BRF Singapore Foods.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders BRF Singapore Foods Pte Ltd to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Tipiak;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 246, 22.7.2019.