CELEX: 62014TA0742
Language: en
Date: 2016-07-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-742/14: Judgment of the General Court of 19 July 2016 — Alpha Calcit v EUIPO — Materis Paints Italia (CALCILITE) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark CALCILITE — Earlier EU word mark Calcilit — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the goods — Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Relevant public — Public common to the goods in question)

29.8.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 314/20
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 19 July 2016 — Alpha Calcit v EUIPO — Materis Paints Italia (CALCILITE)
   (Case T-742/14) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark CALCILITE - Earlier EU word mark Calcilit - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the goods - Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Relevant public - Public common to the goods in question))
   (2016/C 314/27)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Alpha Calcit Füllstoffgesellschaft mbH (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: F. Hauck, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Palmero Cabezas, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Materis Paints Italia SpA (Novate Milanese, Italy) (represented by: P.L. Roncaglia, F. Rossi and N. Parrotta, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 September 2014 (Case R 753/2013-4), relating to invalidity proceedings between Alpha Calcit Füllstoffgesellschaft and Materis Paints Italia.
   
      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 September 2014 (Case R 753/2013-4) as regards the ‘paints, varnishes, lacquers; preservatives against rust and against deterioration of wood; colorants; mordants’ covered by the contested trade mark;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Alpha Calcit Füllstoffgesellschaft mbH, EUIPO and Materis Paints Italia SpA to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 462, 22.12.2014.