CELEX: 62018TA0729
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-729/18: Judgment of the General Court of 19 December 2019 — El Corte Inglés v EUIPO — Lloyd Shoes (LLOYD) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU figurative mark LLOYD — Earlier EU figurative mark LLOYD’S — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — No similarity between the goods and services — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

24.2.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 61/31
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 19 December 2019 — El Corte Inglés v EUIPO — Lloyd Shoes (LLOYD)
      (Case T-729/18) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU figurative mark LLOYD - Earlier EU figurative mark LLOYD’S - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - No similarity between the goods and services - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2020/C 61/38)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: El Corte Inglés, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J.L. Rivas Zurdo, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J.F. Crespo Carrillo and H. O’Neill, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Lloyd Shoes GmbH (Sulingen, Germany) (represented by: M. Stöckel, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 13 September 2018 (Case R 2385/2017-1), relating to opposition proceedings between El Corte Inglés and Lloyd Shoes.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders El Corte Inglés, SA to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO);
                  
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Lloyd Shoes GmbH to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 44, 4.2.2019.