CELEX: 62017TA0712
Language: en
Date: 2018-09-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-712/17: Judgment of the General Court of 27 September 2018 — Ntolas v EUIPO — General Nutrition Investment (GN Laboratories) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU word mark GN Laboratories — Earlier EU word mark GNC — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

26.11.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 427/62
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 27 September 2018 — Ntolas v EUIPO — General Nutrition Investment (GN Laboratories)
      (Case T-712/17) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU word mark GN Laboratories - Earlier EU word mark GNC - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
      (2018/C 427/82)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Christos Ntolas (Wuppertal, Germany) (represented by: C. Renger, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: P. Sipos and by D. Walicka, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: General Nutrition Investment Co. (Wilmington, Delaware, Arizona, United States of America)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 July 2017 (Case R 2358/2016-5), relating to opposition proceedings between General Nutrition Investment Co. and C. Ntolas.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Christos Ntolas to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 437, 18.12.2017.