CELEX: 62020TA0399
Language: en
Date: 2021-07-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-399/20: Judgment of the General Court of 14 July 2021 — Cole Haan v EUIPO — Samsøe & Samsøe Holding (Ø) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark Ø — Earlier international figurative mark φ — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

30.8.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 349/35
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 14 July 2021 — Cole Haan v EUIPO — Samsøe & Samsøe Holding (Ø)
      (Case T-399/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark Ø - Earlier international figurative mark φ - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2021/C 349/49)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Cole Haan LLC (Greenland, New Hampshire, United States) (represented by: G. Vos, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: T. Frydendahl and A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Samsøe & Samsøe Holding A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark) (represented by: C. Jardorf, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 15 April 2020 (Case R 1375/2019-4) relating to opposition proceedings between Samsøe & Samsøe Holding and Cole Haan.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Cole Haan LLC to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO);
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Samsøe & Samsøe Holding A/S to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 271, 17.8.2020.