CELEX: 62015TA0701
Language: en
Date: 2017-01-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-701/15: Judgment of the General Court of 19 January 2017 — Stock Polska v EUIPO — Lass & Steffen (LUBELSKA) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark LUBELSKA — Earlier national word mark Lubeca — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Level of attention of the public — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

27.2.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 63/26
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 19 January 2017 — Stock Polska v EUIPO — Lass & Steffen (LUBELSKA)
   (Case T-701/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark LUBELSKA - Earlier national word mark Lubeca - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Level of attention of the public - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 063/36)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Stock Polska sp. z o.o. (Warsaw, Poland) (represented by: T. Gawrylczyk, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: M. Rajh, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Lass & Steffen GmbH Wein- und Spirituosen-Import (Lübeck, Germany) (represented by: R. Kunz-Hallstein, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 24 September 2015 (Case R 1788/2014-5), relating to opposition proceedings between Lass & Steffen Wein- und Spirituosen-Import and Stock Polska.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Stock Polska sp. z o.o. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 38, 1.2.2016.