CELEX: 62017TA0419
Language: en
Date: 2018-05-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-419/17: Judgment of the General Court of 18 May 2018 — Mendes v EUIPO — Actial Farmaceutica (VSL#3) (EU trade mark — Revocation proceedings — EU word mark VSL#3 — Trade mark having become a common name in the trade for a product or service for which it is registered — Mark liable to mislead the public — Article 51(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 58(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

201806220671970852018/C 240/454192017TC24020180709EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL20180518414111Case T-419/17: Judgment of the General Court of 18 May 2018 — Mendes v EUIPO — Actial Farmaceutica (VSL#3) (EU trade mark — Revocation proceedings — EU word mark VSL#3 — Trade mark having become a common name in the trade for a product or service for which it is registered — Mark liable to mislead the public — Article 51(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 58(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
 ---documentbreak--- C2402018EN4110120180518EN0045411411Judgment of the General Court of 18 May 2018 — Mendes v EUIPO — Actial Farmaceutica (VSL#3)
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   ‛(EU trade mark — Revocation proceedings — EU word mark VSL#3 — Trade mark having become a common name in the trade for a product or service for which it is registered — Mark liable to mislead the public — Article 51(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 58(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))’2018/C 240/45Language of the case: Italian
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Mendes SA (Lugano, Switzerland) (represented by: G. Carpineti, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the Court: Actial Farmaceutica Srl (Rome, Italy) (represented by: S. Giudici, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 3 May 2017 (Case R 1306/2016-2), relating to revocation proceedings between Mendes and Actial Farmaceutica.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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            Dismisses the action;
         
      
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            Orders Mendes SA to bear the costs.
         
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      )	OJ C 277, 21.8.2017.