CELEX: 62020TA0442
Language: en
Date: 2021-05-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-442/20: Judgment of the General Court of 5 May 2021 — Grangé and Van Strydonck v EUIPO — Nema (âme) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU word mark âme — Earlier international figurative mark AMEN — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Counteraction of visual and phonetic similarities through conceptual differences — Conditions for counteraction)

21.6.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 242/44
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 5 May 2021 — Grangé and Van Strydonck v EUIPO — Nema (âme)
      (Case T-442/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU word mark âme - Earlier international figurative mark AMEN - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Counteraction of visual and phonetic similarities through conceptual differences - Conditions for counteraction)
      (2021/C 242/62)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Isaline Grangé (Edegem, Belgium), Alizée Van Strydonck (Strombeek-Bever, Belgium) (represented by: M. De Vroey, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: P. Villani and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Nema Srl (San Lazzaro di Savena, Italy)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 June 2020 (Case R 2960/2019-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Nema, on the one hand, and Ms Grangé and Ms Van Strydonck, on the other.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 4 June 2020 (Case R 2960/2019-4);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Ms Isaline Grangé and Ms Alizée Van Strydonck, including the costs necessarily incurred by Ms Grangé and Ms Van Strydonck for the purposes of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 297, 7.9.2020.