CELEX: 62019TA0106
Language: en
Date: 2020-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-106/19: Judgment of the General Court of 29 April 2020 — Abarca v EUIPO — Abanca Corporación Bancaria (ABARCA SEGUROS) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark ABARCA SEGUROS — Earlier EU word mark ABANCA — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

22.6.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/25
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 29 April 2020 — Abarca v EUIPO — Abanca Corporación Bancaria (ABARCA SEGUROS)
      (Case T-106/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark ABARCA SEGUROS - Earlier EU word mark ABANCA - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2020/C 209/33)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Abarca — Companhia de Seguros SA (Lisbon, Portugal) (represented by: J. Pimenta and Á. Pinho, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: G. Schneider, J. Crespo Carrillo and H. O’Neill, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Abanca Corporación Bancaria, SA (Betanzos, Spain) (represented by: M. Aznar Alonso, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 22 November 2018 (Case R 1370/2018-2), relating to opposition proceedings between Abanca Corporación Bancaria and Abarca — Companhia de Seguros.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Abarca — Companhia de Seguros SA to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Abanca Corporación Bancaria, SA.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 131, 8.4.2019.