CELEX: 62018TA0491
Language: en
Date: 2019-10-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-491/18: Judgment of the General Court of 3 October 2019 — Vafo Praha v EUIPO — Rutzinger-Kurpas (Meatlove) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the EU word mark Meatlove — Earlier EU word mark carnilove — 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))

16.12.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/40
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 3 October 2019 — Vafo Praha v EUIPO — Rutzinger-Kurpas (Meatlove)
      (Case T-491/18) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU word mark Meatlove - Earlier EU word mark carnilove - 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))
      (2019/C 423/50)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Vafo Praha s.r.o. (Chrášt’any, Czech Republic) (represented by: M. Vojáček, 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: Susanne Rutzinger-Kurpas (Spiegelau, Germany) (represented by: F. Lichtnecker, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 June 2018 (Case R 264/2018-4), relating to opposition proceedings between Vafo Praha and Ms Rutzinger-Kurpas.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 12 June 2018 (Case R 264/2018-4);
                  
               
            
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                     Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Vafo Praha s.r.o.;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders Ms Susanne Rutzinger-Kurpas to bear her own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 352, 1.10.2018.