CELEX: 62015TA0735
Language: en
Date: 2016-12-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-735/15: Judgment of the General Court of 6 December 2016 — The Art Company B & S v EUIPO — Manifatture Daddato and Laurora (SHOP ART) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for an EU figurative mark SHOP ART — Earlier EU figurative mark art — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

23.1.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/31
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 6 December 2016 — The Art Company B & S v EUIPO — Manifatture Daddato and Laurora (SHOP ART)
   (Case T-735/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for an EU figurative mark SHOP ART - Earlier EU figurative mark art - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 022/41)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: The Art Company B & S, SA (Quel, Spain) (represented by: L. Sánchez Calderón and J. Villamor Muguerza, lawyers)
   
      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: Manifatture Daddato SpA (Barletta, Italy) (represented by: D. Russo, lawyer)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Sabina Laurora (Trani, Italy)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 8 October 2015 (Case R 3050/2014-1), relating to opposition proceedings between The Art Company B & S, on the one hand, and Manifatture Daddato and Ms Laurora, on the other.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 8 October 2015 (Case R 3050/2014-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders each party to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 68, 22.2.2016.