CELEX: 62020TA0498
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-498/20: Judgment of the General Court of 26 January 2022 — Diego v EUIPO — Forbo Financial Services (WOOD STEP LAMINATE FLOORING) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU figurative mark WOOD STEP LAMINATE FLOORING — Earlier international word mark STEP — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Free movement of goods)

21.3.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 128/20
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 26 January 2022 — Diego v EUIPO — Forbo Financial Services (WOOD STEP LAMINATE FLOORING)
      (Case T-498/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU figurative mark WOOD STEP LAMINATE FLOORING - Earlier international word mark STEP - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Free movement of goods)
      (2022/C 128/28)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Diego Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Kft. (Dabas, Hungary) (represented by: P. Jalsovszky, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: T. Frydendahl and A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Forbo Financial Services AG (Baar, Switzerland) (represented by: F. Kramer, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 June 2020 (Case R 1630/2019-1), relating to opposition proceedings between Forbo Financial Services and Diego Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Diego Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Kft. to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 339, 12.10.2020.