CELEX: 62020TA0003
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-3/20: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — Forbo Financial Services v EUIPO — Windmöller (Canoleum) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark Canoleum — Earlier international word mark MARMOLEUM — Relative ground for refusal — Late filing of the statement of the grounds of appeal — Inadmissibility of the appeal before the Board of Appeal — Request for restitutio in integrum — Sudden illness of the lawyer representing the applicant — Duty of due care — Probative value of the affidavit made by the lawyer)

22.2.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 62/29
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — Forbo Financial Services v EUIPO — Windmöller (Canoleum)
      (Case T-3/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark Canoleum - Earlier international word mark MARMOLEUM - Relative ground for refusal - Late filing of the statement of the grounds of appeal - Inadmissibility of the appeal before the Board of Appeal - Request for restitutio in integrum - Sudden illness of the lawyer representing the applicant - Duty of due care - Probative value of the affidavit made by the lawyer)
      (2021/C 62/35)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Forbo Financial Services AG (Baar, Switzerland) (represented by: S. Fröhlich, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: M. Fischer, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Windmöller GmbH (Augustdorf, Germany)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 9 October 2019 (Case R 773/2019-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Forbo Financial Services and Windmöller.
      
         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 9 October 2019 (Case R 773/2019-2);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders EUIPO to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 77, 9.3.2020.