CELEX: 62017TA0785
Language: en
Date: 2019-01-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-785/17: Judgment of the General Court of 24 January 2019 — Ilhan v EUIPO — Time Gate (BIG SAM SPORTSWEAR COMPANY) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — International registration designating the European Union — Figurative mark BIG SAM SPORTSWEAR COMPANY — Earlier word mark SAM — Relative ground for refusal — Extinction of rights due to acquiescence — Evidence presented for the first time before the General Court — Article 54(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 61(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001))

18.3.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 103/36
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 24 January 2019 — Ilhan v EUIPO — Time Gate (BIG SAM SPORTSWEAR COMPANY)
      (Case T-785/17) (1)
      
      ((EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - International registration designating the European Union - Figurative mark BIG SAM SPORTSWEAR COMPANY - Earlier word mark SAM - Relative ground for refusal - Extinction of rights due to acquiescence - Evidence presented for the first time before the General Court - Article 54(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 61(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001)))
      (2019/C 103/46)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Ercan Ilhan (Istanbul, Turkey) (represented by: S. Can, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: H. O’Neill and D. Walicka, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Time Gate GmbH (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: R. Kunz-Hallstein, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 13 September 2017 (Case R 974/2016-5) relating to invalidity proceedings between Time Gate and Mr Ilhan.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Mr Ercan Ilhan to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 32, 29.1.2018.