CELEX: 62021TA0192
Language: en
Date: 2022-03-02 00:00:00
Title: Case T-192/21: Judgment of the General Court of 2 March 2022 — Laboratorios Ern v EUIPO — Beta Sports (META) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark META — Earlier national word mark METALGIAL — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

25.4.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 171/34
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 2 March 2022 — Laboratorios Ern v EUIPO — Beta Sports (META)
      (Case T-192/21) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark META - Earlier national word mark METALGIAL - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2022/C 171/44)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Laboratorios Ern, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: T. González Martínez, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Beta Sports LLC (Coconut Creek, Florida, United States)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 22 January 2021 (Case R 1152/2020-2), relating to opposition proceedings between Laboratorios Ern and Beta Sports.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Laboratorios Ern, SA to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 217, 7.6.2021.