CELEX: 62017TA0444
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-444/17: Judgment of the General Court of 15 October 2018 — CompuGroup Medical v EUIPO — Medion (life coins) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for EU word mark life coins — Earlier EU word mark LIFE — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

3.12.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 436/45
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 15 October 2018 — CompuGroup Medical v EUIPO — Medion (life coins)
      (Case T-444/17) (1)
      
      ((EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU word mark life coins - Earlier EU word mark LIFE - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)))
      (2018/C 436/63)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: CompuGroup Medical AG (Koblenz, Germany) (represented by: B. Dix, 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 EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Medion AG (Essen, Germany) (represented by: G. Hagemeier, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 25 April 2017 (Case R 1569/2016-1) relating to opposition proceedings between Medion and CompuGroup Medical.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders CompuGroup Medical AG to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and Medion AG.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 283, 28.8.2017.