CELEX: 62019TA0076
Language: en
Date: 2020-05-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-76/19: Judgment of the General Court of 13 May 2020 — Pontinova v EUIPO — Ponti & Partners (pontinova) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark pontinova — Earlier national word mark PONTI — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Relevant public — Similarity of the services — Similarity of the signs — Global assessment of the likelihood of confusion)

29.6.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 215/37
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 13 May 2020 — Pontinova v EUIPO — Ponti & Partners (pontinova)
      (Case T-76/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark pontinova - Earlier national word mark PONTI - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Relevant public - Similarity of the services - Similarity of the signs - Global assessment of the likelihood of confusion)
      (2020/C 215/45)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Pontinova AG (Zurich, Switzerland) (represented by: L. Röh, 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: Ponti & Partners, SLP (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: R. Guerras Mazón, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 27 November 2018 (Case R 566/2018 5), relating to opposition proceedings between Ponti & Partners and Pontinova.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Pontinova AG to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 122, 1.4.2019.