CELEX: 62020TA0130
Language: en
Date: 2021-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-130/20: Judgment of the General Court of 9 June 2021 — Philip Morris Products v EUIPO — (SIENNA SELECTION) (EU trade mark — Application for EU word mark SIENNA SELECTION — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character — No distinctive character — Name of a colour — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

26.7.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 297/39
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 9 June 2021 — Philip Morris Products v EUIPO — (SIENNA SELECTION)
      (Case T-130/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Application for EU word mark SIENNA SELECTION - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - No distinctive character - Name of a colour - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2021/C 297/48)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Philip Morris Products SA (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) (represented by: L. Alonso Domingo, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: M. Capostagno and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 December 2019 (Case R 1675/2019 5), relating to an application for registration of the word sign SIENNA SELECTION as an EU trade mark.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 18 December 2019 (Case R 1675/2019-5);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Philip Morris Products SA.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 175, 25.5.2020.