CELEX: 62016TA0204
Language: en
Date: 2018-01-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-204/16: Judgment of the General Court of 16 January 2018 — Sun Media v EUIPO — Meta4 Spain (METABOX) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU word mark METABOX — Earlier EU and national word marks META4 and earlier EU and national figurative marks meta4 — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Similarity of the signs — Likelihood of confusion)

26.2.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 72/33
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 January 2018 — Sun Media v EUIPO — Meta4 Spain (METABOX)
   (Case T-204/16) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU word mark METABOX - Earlier EU and national word marks META4 and earlier EU and national figurative marks meta4 - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Similarity of the signs - Likelihood of confusion))
   (2018/C 072/42)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Sun Media Ltd (Hong Kong, China) (represented by: A. Schnider, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (represented by: S. Bonne, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Meta4 Spain, SA (Las Rozas, Spain) (represented by: I. Temiño Ceniceros, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 3 March 2016 (Case R 307/2015-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Meta4 Spain and Sun Media.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Sun Media Ltd to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 270, 25.7.2016.