CELEX: 62016TA0235
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-235/16: Judgment of the General Court of 21 June 2017 — GP Joule PV v EUIPO — Green Power Technologies (GPTech) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU figurative trade mark GPTech — Earlier EU word marks GP JOULE — Failure to produce before the Opposition Division proof of entitlement to file a notice of opposition — Proof first produced before the Board of Appeal — Failure to take into account — Discretion of the Board of Appeal — Circumstances precluding additional or supplementary evidence from being taken into account — Article 76(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Rules 17(4), 19(2), 20(1) and 50(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95)

7.8.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 256/24
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 21 June 2017 — GP Joule PV v EUIPO — Green Power Technologies (GPTech)
   (Case T-235/16) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU figurative trade mark GPTech - Earlier EU word marks GP JOULE - Failure to produce before the Opposition Division proof of entitlement to file a notice of opposition - Proof first produced before the Board of Appeal - Failure to take into account - Discretion of the Board of Appeal - Circumstances precluding additional or supplementary evidence from being taken into account - Article 76(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Rules 17(4), 19(2), 20(1) and 50(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95))
   (2017/C 256/26)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: GP Joule PV GmbH & Co. KG (Reußenköge, Germany) (represented by: F. Döring, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: E. Zaera Cuadrado, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Green Power Technologies, SL (Bollullos de la Mitación, Spain)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 9 February 2016 (Case R 848/2015-2), relating to opposition proceedings between GP Joule PV and Green Power Technologies.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders GP Joule PV GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 279, 1.8.2016.