CELEX: 62015TA0716
Language: en
Date: 2016-11-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-716/15: Judgment of the General Court of 9 November 2016 — Gallardo Blanco v EUIPO — Expasa Agricultura y Ganadería (Representation of a branding iron (shape of an H-shaped horse bit)) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark consisting of the representation of a branding iron (shape of an H-shaped horse bit) — Earlier EU and Spanish figurative marks — Relative grounds for refusal — Genuine use of the earlier marks — Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009)

6.2.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 38/33
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 9 November 2016 — Gallardo Blanco v EUIPO — Expasa Agricultura y Ganadería (Representation of a branding iron (shape of an H-shaped horse bit))
   (Case T-716/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark consisting of the representation of a branding iron (shape of an H-shaped horse bit) - Earlier EU and Spanish figurative marks - Relative grounds for refusal - Genuine use of the earlier marks - Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 038/45)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Juan Gallardo Blanco (Los Barrios, Spain) (represented by: E. Estella Garbayo, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Palmero Cabezas, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervening before the General Court: Expasa Agricultura y Ganadería, SA (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain) (represented by: A. Bosch Döffert, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 29 September 2015 (Case R 1502/2014-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Expasa Agricultura y Ganadería and Mr Juan Gallardo Blanco.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Juan Gallardo Blanco to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 59, 15.2.2016.