CELEX: 62018TA0722
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-722/18: Judgment of the General Court of 9 December 2020 — Repsol v EUIPO — Basic (BASIC) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark BASIC — Earlier national trade names basic and basic AG — Relative grounds for refusal — Use in the course of trade of a sign of more than mere local significance — Article 8(4) and Article 53(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(4) and Article 60(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Declaration of partial invalidity — Decision taken following the annulment of an earlier decision by the General Court — Referral of the case back to a Board of Appeal — Lack of competence of the authority referring the case — Article 1(d) of Regulation (EC) No 216/96 — Cross-claim)

1.2.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 35/42
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 9 December 2020 — Repsol v EUIPO — Basic (BASIC)
      (Case T-722/18) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark BASIC - Earlier national trade names basic and basic AG - Relative grounds for refusal - Use in the course of trade of a sign of more than mere local significance - Article 8(4) and Article 53(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(4) and Article 60(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Declaration of partial invalidity - Decision taken following the annulment of an earlier decision by the General Court - Referral of the case back to a Board of Appeal - Lack of competence of the authority referring the case - Article 1(d) of Regulation (EC) No 216/96 - Cross-claim)
      (2021/C 35/54)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Repsol, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J.-B. Devaureix and J.C. Erdozain López, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: H. O’Neill and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Basic AG Lebensmittelhandel (Munich, Germany) (represented by: D. Altenburg, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 22 August 2018 (Case R 178/2018-2), relating to invalidity proceedings between Basic Lebensmittelhandel and Repsol.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 22 August 2018 (Case R 178/2018-2);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Declares that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the cross-claim;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders EUIPO and Basic AG Lebensmittelhandel to bear their own costs and each to pay half of the costs incurred by Repsol, SA.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 54, 11.2.2019.