CELEX: 62019TA0852
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-852/19: Judgment of the General Court of 15 September 2021 — Albéa Services v EUIPO — dm-drogerie markt (ALBÉA) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — International registration designating the European Union — Figurative mark ALBÉA — Earlier international registration designating the European Union — Word mark Balea — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Distinctiveness of the earlier international registration designating the European Union — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

8.11.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 452/23
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 15 September 2021 — Albéa Services v EUIPO — dm-drogerie markt (ALBÉA)
      (Case T-852/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - International registration designating the European Union - Figurative mark ALBÉA - Earlier international registration designating the European Union - Word mark Balea - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Distinctiveness of the earlier international registration designating the European Union - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
      (2021/C 452/23)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Albéa Services (Gennevilliers, France) (represented by: J.-H. de Mitry, 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: dm-drogerie markt GmbH & Co. KG (Karlsruhe, Germany) (represented by: O. Bludovsky, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 23 September 2019 (Case R 1480/2019-2), relating to opposition proceedings between dm-drogerie markt and Albéa Services.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 23 September 2019 (Case R 1480/2019-2) to the extent that it annulled the decision of the Opposition Division, except in so far as it annulled the decision of the Opposition Division as regards ‘cosmetics’ in Class 3;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Dismisses the remainder of the action;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Albéa Services;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders dm-drogerie markt GmbH & Co. KG to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 68, 2.3.2020.