CELEX: 62014TA0741
Language: en
Date: 2017-03-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-741/14: Judgment of the General Court of 14 March 2017 — Hersill v EUIPO — KCI Licensing (VACUP) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark VACUP — Earlier EU word marks MINIVAC and V.A.C. — No genuine use of the earlier mark — Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

24.4.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 129/15
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 March 2017 — Hersill v EUIPO — KCI Licensing (VACUP)
   (Case T-741/14) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark VACUP - Earlier EU word marks MINIVAC and V.A.C. - No genuine use of the earlier mark - Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 129/25)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Hersill, SL (Móstoles, Spain) (represented by: M. Aznar Alonso and P. Koch Moreno, lawyers)
   
      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, intervening before the General Court: KCI Licensing, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas, United States) (represented by: S. Malynicz QC)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 August 2014 (Case R 1520/2013-2), relating to opposition proceedings between KCI Licensing and Hersill.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 14 August 2014 (Case R 1520/2013-2);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Hersill, SL;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders KCI Licensing, Inc. to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 448, 15.12.2014.