CELEX: 62015TA0577
Language: en
Date: 2018-05-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-577/15: Judgment of the General Court of 29 May 2018 — Uribe-Etxebarría Jiménez v EUIPO — Núcleo de comunicaciones y control (SHERPA) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU word mark SHERPA — Earlier national word mark SHERPA — Partial declaration of invalidity — Subject matter of the dispute before the Board of Appeal — Genuine use of the mark — Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 47(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 60(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

201806220691970212018/C 240/355772015TC24020180709EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL20180529343411Case T-577/15: Judgment of the General Court of 29 May 2018 — Uribe-Etxebarría Jiménez v EUIPO — Núcleo de comunicaciones y control (SHERPA) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU word mark SHERPA — Earlier national word mark SHERPA — Partial declaration of invalidity — Subject matter of the dispute before the Board of Appeal — Genuine use of the mark — Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 47(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 60(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
 ---documentbreak--- C2402018EN3410120180529EN0035341341Judgment of the General Court of 29 May 2018 — Uribe-Etxebarría Jiménez v EUIPO — Núcleo de comunicaciones y control (SHERPA)
   (Case T-577/15) (
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   ‛(EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU word mark SHERPA — Earlier national word mark SHERPA — Partial declaration of invalidity — Subject matter of the dispute before the Board of Appeal — Genuine use of the mark — Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 47(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 60(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))’2018/C 240/35Language of the case: Spanish
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Xavier Uribe-Etxebarría Jiménez (Erandio, Spain) (represented by: M. Esteve Sanz, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Crespo Carillo, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Núcleo de comunicaciones y control, SL (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: P. López Ronda, G. Macías Bonilla, G. Marín Raigal and E. Armero Lavie, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 17 July 2015 (Case R 1135/2014-2) relating to invalidity proceedings between Núcleo de comunicaciones y control and Mr Uribe-Etxebarría Jiménez.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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            Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 17 July 2015 (Case R 1135/2014-2) as regards the goods designated by the contested mark in Class 9;
         
      
            2.
         
         
            Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
         
      
            3.
         
         
            Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay one third of the costs incurred by Mr Xavier Uribe-Etxebarría Jiménez;
         
      
            4.
         
         
            Orders Mr Uribe-Etxebarría Jiménez to bear two thirds of his own costs;
         
      
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            Orders Núcleo de comunicaciones y control, SL to bear its own costs.
         
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      )	OJ C 406, 7.12.2015.