CELEX: 62018TA0297
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-297/18: Judgment of the General Court of 13 March 2019 — Wirecard Technologies v EUIPO — Striatum Ventures (supr) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU word mark supr — Earlier Benelux word mark Zupr — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 60(1)(a) and Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

29.4.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 148/51
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 13 March 2019 — Wirecard Technologies v EUIPO — Striatum Ventures (supr)
      (Case T-297/18) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU word mark supr - Earlier Benelux word mark Zupr - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 60(1)(a) and Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2019/C 148/49)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Wirecard Technologies GmbH (Aschheim, Germany) (represented by: A. Bayer, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Bonne and H. O’Neill, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Striatum Ventures BV (’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) (represented by: G. Van den Hout, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 20 February 2018 (Case R 2028/2017-5), relating to invalidity proceedings between Striatum Ventures and Wirecard Technologies.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Wirecard Technologies GmbH to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 240,9.7.2018.