CELEX: 62016TA0340
Language: en
Date: 2018-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Case T-340/16: Judgment of the General Court of 31 May 2018 — Flatworld Solutions v EUIPO — Outsource Professional Services (Outsource 2 India) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — European Union figurative mark Outsource 2 India — Bad faith — Article 52(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) (now Article 59(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

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 ---documentbreak--- C2492018EN2310120180531EN0028231242Judgment of the General Court of 31 May 2018 — Flatworld Solutions v EUIPO — Outsource Professional Services (Outsource 2 India)
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   ‛(EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — European Union figurative mark Outsource 2 India — Bad faith — Article 52(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) (now Article 59(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)’2018/C 249/28Language of the case: English
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Flatworld Solutions Pvt Ltd (Bangalore, India) (represented by: S.O. Gillert, K. Vanden Bossche, B. Köhn-Gerdes and J. Schumacher, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Gája, acting as Agent)
   
      Intervener: Outsource Professional Services Ltd (Friedrichshafen, Germany), given leave to replace the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO (represented by: A. Kempter, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 15 April 2016 (Case R 611/2015-4), relating to invalidity proceedings between Flatworld Solutions and Outsource2India.
   
      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 15 April 2016 (Case R 611/2015-4);
         
      
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            Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Flatworld Solutions Pvt Ltd;
         
      
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            Orders Outsource Professional Services Ltd to bear its own costs.
         
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      )	OJ C 305, 22.8.2016.