CELEX: 62019TA0863
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-863/19: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — Production Christian Gallimard v EUIPO — Éditions Gallimard (PCG CALLIGRAM CHRISTIAN GALLIMARD) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU word mark PCG CALLIGRAM CHRISTIAN GALLIMARD — Previous EU word marks GALLIMARD — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Conceptual comparison — Surnames — Independent distinctive role — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

15.2.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 53/38
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — Production Christian Gallimard v EUIPO — Éditions Gallimard (PCG CALLIGRAM CHRISTIAN GALLIMARD)
      (Case T-863/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU word mark PCG CALLIGRAM CHRISTIAN GALLIMARD - Previous EU word marks GALLIMARD - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Conceptual comparison - Surnames - Independent distinctive role - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
      (2021/C 53/51)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Production Christian Gallimard (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) (represented by: L. Dreyfuss-Bechmann, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: V. Rusek, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Éditions Gallimard la nouvelle revue française éditions de la nouvelle revue française SA (Paris, France) (represented by: J.-A. Bénazéraf and Y. Diringer, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 1 October 2019 (Case R-2316/2018-5) regarding opposition proceedings between Éditions Gallimard la nouvelle revue française éditions de la nouvelle revue française and Production Christian Gallimard.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Production Christian Gallimard to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO);
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Éditions Gallimard la nouvelle revue française éditions de la nouvelle revue française SA to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 61, 24.2.2020.