CELEX: 62016TA0258
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-258/16: Judgment of the General Court of 7 June 2017 — Mediterranean Premium Spirits v EUIPO — G-Star Raw (GINRAW) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark GINRAW — Earlier EU word marks RAW — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Evidence submitted for the first time before the General Court — Obligation to state reasons)

31.7.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 249/26
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 7 June 2017 — Mediterranean Premium Spirits v EUIPO — G-Star Raw (GINRAW)
   (Case T-258/16) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark GINRAW - Earlier EU word marks RAW - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Evidence submitted for the first time before the General Court - Obligation to state reasons))
   (2017/C 249/39)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Mediterranean Premium Spirits, SL (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: J.A. Mora Granell and J. Romaní Lluch, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral and K. Sidat Humphreys, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: G-Star Raw CV (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: L. Dijkman and J. van Manen, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 March 2016 (Case R 1583/2015-4), relating to opposition proceedings between G-Star Raw and Mediterranean Premium Spirits.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mediterranean Premium Spirits, SL to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by EUIPO and G-Star Raw CV.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 251, 11.7.2016.