CELEX: 62018TA0736
Language: en
Date: 2019-11-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-736/18: Judgment of the General Court of 28 November 2019 — Runnebaum Invest v EUIPO — Berg Toys Beheer (Bergsteiger) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark Bergsteiger — Earlier Benelux word marks and EU figurative and word marks BERG — Relative ground for refusal — Article 47(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Admissibility of a request for proof of genuine use — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001)

27.1.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 27/33
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 28 November 2019 — Runnebaum Invest v EUIPO — Berg Toys Beheer (Bergsteiger)
      (Case T-736/18) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark Bergsteiger - Earlier Benelux word marks and EU figurative and word marks BERG - Relative ground for refusal - Article 47(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Admissibility of a request for proof of genuine use - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001)
      (2020/C 27/41)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Runnebaum Invest GmbH (Diepholz, Germany) (represented by: W. Prinz, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: 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: Berg Toys Beheer BV (Ede, Netherlands) (represented by: E. van Gelderen, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 22 October 2018 (Case R 572/2018-4) relating to opposition proceedings between Berg Toys Beheer and Runnebaum Invest.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 22 October 2018 (Case R 572/2018-4);
                  
               
            
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                     Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Runnebaum Invest GmbH;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders Berg Toys Beheer BV to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 65, 18.2.2019.