CELEX: 62016TA0792
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-792/16: Judgment of the General Court of 14 December 2017 — N & C Franchise v EUIPO — Eschenbach Optik (OJO sunglasses) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark OJO sunglasses — Earlier international word mark oio — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

12.2.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 52/27
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 December 2017 — N & C Franchise v EUIPO — Eschenbach Optik (OJO sunglasses)
   (Case T-792/16) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark OJO sunglasses - Earlier international word mark oio - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)))
   (2018/C 052/38)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: N & C Franchise Ltd (Nicosia, Cyprus) (represented by: C. Chrysanthis, P.-V. Chardalia, and A. Vasilogamvrou, lawyers)
   
      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: Eschenbach Optik GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 9 September 2016 (Case R 32/2016-5), relating to opposition proceedings between Eschenbach Optik and N & C Franchise.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders N & C Franchise Ltd to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 22, 23.1.2017.