CELEX: 62020TA0616
Language: en
Date: 2021-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-616/20: Judgment of the General Court of 17 November 2021 — Société des produits Nestlé v EUIPO — Amigüitos pets & life (THE ONLY ONE by alphaspirit wild and perfect) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU figurative mark THE ONLY ONE by alphaspirit wild and perfect — Earlier EU word mark ONE — Relative grounds for refusal — Article 8(1)(b) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) and (5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Decision taken following the annulment of an earlier decision by the General Court — Article 72(6) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Res judicata)

17.1.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/33
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 17 November 2021 — Société des produits Nestlé v EUIPO — Amigüitos pets & life (THE ONLY ONE by alphaspirit wild and perfect)
      (Case T-616/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU figurative mark THE ONLY ONE by alphaspirit wild and perfect - Earlier EU word mark ONE - Relative grounds for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) and (5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Decision taken following the annulment of an earlier decision by the General Court - Article 72(6) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Res judicata)
      (2022/C 24/43)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Société des produits Nestlé SA (Vevey, Switzerland) (represented by: A. Jaeger-Lenz and C. Elkemann, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: G. Sakalaitė-Orlovskienė and D. Walicka, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Amigüitos pets & life, SA (Lorca, Spain) (represented by: N. Fernández Fernández-Pacheco, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 29 July 2020 (Case R 424/2020-5), relating to opposition proceedings between Société des produits Nestlé and Amigüitos pets & life.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 29 July 2020 (Case R 424/2020-5);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Société des produits Nestlé SA for the purposes of the proceedings before the General Court;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Amigüitos pets & life, SA to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 399, 23.11.2020.