CELEX: 62020TA0002
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-2/20: Judgment of the General Court of 15 October 2020 — Laboratorios Ern v EUIPO — Bio-tec Biologische Naturverpackungen (BIOPLAST BIOPLASTICS FOR A BETTER LIFE) (EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — International registration designating the European Union — Figurative mark BIOPLAST BIOPLASTICS FOR A BETTER LIFE — Earlier EU word mark BIOPLAK — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

14.12.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 433/49
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 15 October 2020 — Laboratorios Ern v EUIPO — Bio-tec Biologische Naturverpackungen (BIOPLAST BIOPLASTICS FOR A BETTER LIFE)
      (Case T-2/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - International registration designating the European Union - Figurative mark BIOPLAST BIOPLASTICS FOR A BETTER LIFE - Earlier EU word mark BIOPLAK - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2020/C 433/62)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Laboratorios Ern, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: S. Correa Rodríguez, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo and E. Śliwińska, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Bio-tec Biologische Naturverpackungen GmbH & Co. KG (Emmerich, Germany)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 10 October 2019 (Case R 418/2019-5), relating to opposition proceedings between Laboratorios Ern and Bio-tec Biologische Naturverpackungen.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Laboratorios Ern, SA to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 68, 2.3.2020.