CELEX: 62020TA0025
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-25/20: Judgment of the General Court of 11 November 2020 — Deutsche Post v EUIPO Pošta Slovenije (Representation of a stylised horn) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for registration of an EU figurative mark representing a stylised horn — Earlier EU figurative mark representing a post horn on a yellow background — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Lack of distinctive character of the earlier mark — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

11.1.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 9/19
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 11 November 2020 — Deutsche Post v EUIPO Pošta Slovenije (Representation of a stylised horn)
      (Case T-25/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for registration of an EU figurative mark representing a stylised horn - Earlier EU figurative mark representing a post horn on a yellow background - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Lack of distinctive character of the earlier mark - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
      (2021/C 9/28)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Deutsche Post AG (Bonn, Germany) (represented by: M. Viefhues, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: 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: Pošta Slovenije d.o.o. (Maribor, Slovenia) (represented by: M. Kavčič and R. Jerovšek, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 November 2019 (Case R 994/2019 1) relating to opposition proceedings between Deutsche Post and Pošta Slovenije.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Deutsche Post AG to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 68, 2.3.2020.