CELEX: 62017TA0215
Language: en
Date: 2019-01-31 00:00:00
Title: Case T-215/17: Judgment of the General Court of 31 January 2019 — Pear Technologies v EUIPO — Apple (PEAR) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU figurative trade mark PEAR — Earlier EU figurative trade mark depicting an apple — Relative ground for refusal — No similarity between the signs — Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

18.3.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 103/26
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 31 January 2019 — Pear Technologies v EUIPO — Apple (PEAR)
      (Case T-215/17) (1)
      
      ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU figurative trade mark PEAR - Earlier EU figurative trade mark depicting an apple - Relative ground for refusal - No similarity between the signs - Article 8(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)))
      (2019/C 103/33)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Pear Technologies Ltd (Macao, China) (represented by: J. Coldham, Solicitor, and E. Himsworth QC)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: M. Fischer and H. O’Neill, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, California, United States) (represented by: J. Olsen and P. Andreottola, Solicitors, and G. Tritton, Barrister)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 January 2017 (Case R 860/2016-5), relating to opposition proceedings between Apple and Pear Technologies.
      
         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 18 January 2017 (Case R 860/2016-5);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders EUIPO to pay, in addition to its own costs, half of the costs incurred by Pear Technologies Ltd;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Apple Inc. to pay, in addition to its own costs, half of the costs incurred by Pear Technologies.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 168, 29.5.2017.