CELEX: 62017TA0120
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-120/17: Judgment of the General Court of 11 October 2018 — M & T Emporia Ilektrikon-Ilektronikon Eidon v EUIPO (fluo.) (EU trade mark — Application for EU figurative mark fluo. — Partial rejection of the application for registration — Absolute ground for refusal — Descriptiveness — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

26.11.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 427/52
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 11 October 2018 — M & T Emporia Ilektrikon-Ilektronikon Eidon v EUIPO (fluo.)
      (Case T-120/17) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Application for EU figurative mark fluo. - Partial rejection of the application for registration - Absolute ground for refusal - Descriptiveness - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
      (2018/C 427/66)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: M & T Emporia Ilektrikon-Ilektronikon Eidon AE (Thessaloniki, Greece) (represented by: A. Spyridonos, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: M.d.M. Baldares and J. Ivanauskas, Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 2 December 2016 (Case R 863/2016-2), relating to the application for registration of the figurative sign fluo. as a European Union trade mark.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls paragraph 2 of the operative part of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 2 December 2016 (Case R 863/2016-2);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by M & T Emporia Ilektrikon-Ilektronikon Eidon AE, including the expenses necessarily incurred for the purpose of the appeal proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 121, 18.4.2017.