CELEX: 62015TA0633
Language: en
Date: 2016-09-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-633/15: Judgment of the General Court of 15 September 2016 — JT International v EUIPO — Habanos (PUSH) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark PUSH — Earlier Benelux and national word and figurative marks PUNCH — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Identity of the goods — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

31.10.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 402/44
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 15 September 2016 — JT International v EUIPO — Habanos (PUSH)
   (Case T-633/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark PUSH - Earlier Benelux and national word and figurative marks PUNCH - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Identity of the goods - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 402/51)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: JT International SA (Geneva, Switzerland) (represented by: S. Malynicz QC and K.E. Gilbert and J. Gilbert, Solicitors)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Bonne, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Corporación Habanos, SA (Havana, Cuba) (represented by: M. Escudero Pérez, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 10 August 2015 (Case R 3046/2014-5), relating to opposition proceedings between Corporación Habanos and JT International
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders JT International SA to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Corporación Habanos, SA.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 27, 25.1.2016.