CELEX: 62015TA0580
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-580/15: Judgment of the General Court of 27 June 2017 — Flamagas v EUIPO — MatMind (CLIPPER) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Three-dimensional EU trade mark — Shape of a lighter with a lateral fin, featuring the word element CLIPPER — Shape necessary to obtain a technical result — No distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (e)(ii) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — No description of the mark in the application for registration)

7.8.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 256/20
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 27 June 2017 — Flamagas v EUIPO — MatMind (CLIPPER)
   (Case T-580/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Three-dimensional EU trade mark - Shape of a lighter with a lateral fin, featuring the word element CLIPPER - Shape necessary to obtain a technical result - No distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (e)(ii) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - No description of the mark in the application for registration))
   (2017/C 256/20)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Flamagas, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: I. Valdelomar Serrano, G. Hinarejos Mulliez and D. Gabarre Armengol, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Hanf, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court, being: MatMind Srl (Rome, Italy) (represented by: G. Cipriani and M. Cavattoni, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 30 July 2015 (Case R 924/2013-1) relating to invalidity proceedings between MatMind and Flamagas.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Flamagas, SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 38, 1.2.2016.