CELEX: 62018TA0368
Language: en
Date: 2019-01-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-368/18: Judgment of the General Court of 17 January 2019 — ETI Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret v EUIPO — Grupo Bimbo (ETI Bumbo) (European Union trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU word mark ETI Bumbo — Earlier EU figurative mark BIMBO — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Relevant public — Similarity of the signs — Distinctiveness of the earlier mark — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

11.3.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 93/60
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 17 January 2019 — ETI Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret v EUIPO — Grupo Bimbo (ETI Bumbo)
      (Case T-368/18) (1)
      
      ((European Union trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU word mark ETI Bumbo - Earlier EU figurative mark BIMBO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Relevant public - Similarity of the signs - Distinctiveness of the earlier mark - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
      (2019/C 93/78)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: ETI Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ (Eskişehir, Turkey) (represented by: D. Cañadas Arcas, P. Merino Baylos, D. Gómez Sánchez and N. Martínez de las Rivas Malagón, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Palmero Cabezas and H. O’Neill, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Grupo Bimbo, SAB de CV (Mexico, Mexico) (represented by: N. A. Fernández-Fernández-Pacheco, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 11 April 2018 (Case R 1459/2017-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Grupo Bimbo and ETI Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders ETI Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 276, 6.8.2018.