CELEX: 62016TA0824
Language: en
Date: 2018-03-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-824/16: Judgment of the General Court of 13 March 2018 — Kiosked v EUIPO — VRT (K) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — International registration designating the European Union — Figurative mark K — Earlier Benelux figurative mark K — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

30.4.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 152/31
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 13 March 2018 — Kiosked v EUIPO — VRT (K)
   (Case T-824/16) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - International registration designating the European Union - Figurative mark K - Earlier Benelux figurative mark K - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)))
   (2018/C 152/37)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Kiosked Oy Ab (Espoo, Finland) (represented by: L. Laaksonen, 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, intervener before the General Court: De Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT) (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: P.-Y. Thoumsin and E. Van Melkebeke, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 19 September 2016 (Case R 279/2016-4), relating to opposition proceedings between VRT and Kiosked.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Kiosked Oy Ab to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by De Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT).
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 22, 23.1.2017.