CELEX: 62019TA0589
Language: en
Date: 2020-09-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-589/19: Judgment of the General Court of 9 September 2020 — Gothe and Kunz v EUIPO — Aldi Einkauf (FAIR ZONE) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU word mark FAIR ZONE — Earlier EU word mark FAIR — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

9.11.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 378/31
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 9 September 2020 — Gothe and Kunz v EUIPO — Aldi Einkauf (FAIR ZONE)
      (Case T-589/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU word mark FAIR ZONE - Earlier EU word mark FAIR - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2020/C 378/37)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Oliver Gothe (Cologne, Germany) and Martin Kunz (London, United Kingdom) (represented by: K. Kruse, 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 the EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Aldi Einkauf GmbH & Co. OHG (Essen, Germany) (represented by: N. Lützenrath, U. Rademacher, C. Fürsen, and M. Minkner, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the EUIPO of 3 July 2019 (Case R 2253/2018-4), concerning opposition proceedings between, on the one hand, Aldi Einkauf and, on the other hand, Mr Gothe and Mr Kunz.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  The action is dismissed;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Mr Oliver Gothe and Mr Martin Kunz are ordered to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 337, 7.10.2019.