CELEX: 62017TA0789
Language: en
Date: 2019-02-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-789/17: Judgment of the General Court of 7 February 2019 — TecAlliance v EUIPO — Siemens (TecDocPower) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark TecDocPower — Earlier EU word and figurative marks TECDOC and TecDoc — Relative ground for refusal — Similarity of goods and services — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Genuine use of earlier marks — Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 47(2) and (3) of Regulation 2017/1001))

18.3.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 103/36
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 7 February 2019 — TecAlliance v EUIPO — Siemens (TecDocPower)
      (Case T-789/17) (1)
      
      ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark TecDocPower - Earlier EU word and figurative marks TECDOC and TecDoc - Relative ground for refusal - Similarity of goods and services - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Genuine use of earlier marks - Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 47(2) and (3) of Regulation 2017/1001)))
      (2019/C 103/47)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: TecAlliance GmbH (Ismaning, Germany) (represented by P. Engemann, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by S. Hanne, acting as Agent)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) (represented by V. von Bomhard and J. Fuhrmann, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 September 2017 (Case R 2433/2016-1) relating to opposition proceedings between TecAlliance and Siemens
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders TecAlliance GmbH to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 42, 5.2.2018.