CELEX: 62019CA0143
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-143/19 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 December 2019 — Der Grüne Punkt — Duales System Deutschland GmbH v European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (Appeal — EU trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Articles 15 and 66 — Genuine use of an EU collective trade mark — Mark concerning a system of collection and recovery of packaging waste — Affixing to the packaging of goods for which the mark is registered)

17.2.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 54/11
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 December 2019 — Der Grüne Punkt — Duales System Deutschland GmbH v European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      (Case C-143/19 P) (1)
      
      (Appeal - EU trade mark - Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Articles 15 and 66 - Genuine use of an EU collective trade mark - Mark concerning a system of collection and recovery of packaging waste - Affixing to the packaging of goods for which the mark is registered)
      (2020/C 54/13)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Appellant: Der Grüne Punkt — Duales System Deutschland GmbH (represented by: P. Goldenbaum, Rechtsanwältin)
      
         Other party to the proceedings: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Hanf, acting as Agent)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Sets aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 12 September 2018, Der Grüne Punkt v EUIPO — Halston Properties (Representation of a circle with two arrows) (T-253/17, EU:T:2018:909);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 20 February 2017 (Case R 1357/2015-5);
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Der Grüne Punkt — Duales System Deutschland GmbH relating to both this appeal and the proceedings at first instance.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 220, 1.7.2019.