CELEX: 62015TA0567
Language: en
Date: 2016-07-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-567/15: Judgment of the General Court of 14 July 2016 — Monster Energy v EUIPO — Mad Catz Interactive (Representation of a black square with four white lines) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU figurative mark representing a black square with four white lines — Earlier EU figurative mark representing three claws positioned vertically — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

29.8.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 314/23
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 July 2016 — Monster Energy v EUIPO — Mad Catz Interactive (Representation of a black square with four white lines)
   (Case T-567/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark representing a black square with four white lines - Earlier EU figurative mark representing three claws positioned vertically - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 314/32)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Monster Energy Company (Corona, California, United States) (represented by: P. Brownlow, Solicitor)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Gája, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (San Diego, California, United States)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 1 July 2015 (Case R 2368/2014-5), concerning opposition proceedings between Monster Energy Company and Mad Catz Interactive.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Monster Energy Company to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 381, 16.11.2015.