CELEX: 62018TA0055
Language: en
Date: 2019-05-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-55/18: Judgment of the General Court of 8 May 2019 — Team Beverage v EUIPO (LIEBLINGSWEIN) (EU trade mark — Application for the EU figurative mark LIEBLINGSWEIN — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character — Lack of distinctive character — Misleading character — Article 7(1)(b), (c) and (g) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

1.7.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 220/37
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 8 May 2019 — Team Beverage v EUIPO (LIEBLINGSWEIN)
      (Case T-55/18) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Application for the EU figurative mark LIEBLINGSWEIN - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Lack of distinctive character - Misleading character - Article 7(1)(b), (c) and (g) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2019/C 220/47)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Team Beverage AG (Wildeshausen, Germany) (represented by: O. Spieker, A. Schönfleisch and M. Alber, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Walicka, acting as Agent)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 6 November 2017 (Case R 291/2017-1), concerning an application for registration of the figurative sign LIEBLINGSWEIN as an EU trade mark.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  
                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Team Beverage AG to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 104, 19.3.2018.