CELEX: 62019TA0858
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-858/19: Judgment of the General Court of 9 December 2020 — easyCosmetic Swiss v EUIPO — UWI (easycosmetic) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU word mark easyCosmetic — Absolute ground for refusal — Descriptive character — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

1.2.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 35/48
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 9 December 2020 — easyCosmetic Swiss v EUIPO — UWI (easycosmetic)
      (Case T-858/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU word mark easyCosmetic - Absolute ground for refusal - Descriptive character - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
      (2021/C 35/62)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: easyCosmetic Swiss GmbH (Baar, Switzerland) (represented by: D. Terheggen and S. Sullivan, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Söder and M. Fischer, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: UWI Unternehmensberatungs- und Wirtschaftsinformations GmbH (Bad Nauheim, Germany) (represented by: M. Krisch, T. Guttau and V. Wellens, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 October 2019 (Case R 973/2019-2), relating to invalidity proceedings between UWI and easyCosmetic Swiss.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders EasyCosmetic Swiss GmbH to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO);
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders UWI Unternehmensberatungs- und Wirtschaftsinformations GmbH to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 45, 10.2.2020.