CELEX: 62019TA0820
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-820/19: Judgment of the General Court of 11 November 2020 — Totalizator Sportowy v EUIPO — Lottoland Holdings (Lottoland) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU word mark Lottoland — Earlier national figurative marks LOTTO and Lotto — Earlier national word mark lotto — Declaration of partial invalidity — Relative ground for refusal — No damage to reputation — No link between the marks at issue — Article 8(5) and Article 60(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

11.1.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 9/18
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 11 November 2020 — Totalizator Sportowy v EUIPO — Lottoland Holdings (Lottoland)
      (Case T-820/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU word mark Lottoland - Earlier national figurative marks LOTTO and Lotto - Earlier national word mark lotto - Declaration of partial invalidity - Relative ground for refusal - No damage to reputation - No link between the marks at issue - Article 8(5) and Article 60(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2021/C 9/26)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Totalizator Sportowy sp. z o.o. (Warsaw, Poland) (represented by: B. Matusiewicz-Kulig, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: P. Sipos and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Lottoland Holdings Ltd (Ocean Village, Gibraltar) (represented by: A. Gérard, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 2 October 2019 (Case R 97/2019-4), relating to invalidity proceedings between Totalizator Sportowy and Lottoland Holdings.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Totalizator Sportowy sp. z o.o. to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 45, 10.2.2020.