CELEX: 62016TA0189
Language: en
Date: 2017-07-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-189/16: Judgment of the General Court of 13 July 2017 — Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund v EUIPO — Luigi Lavazza (CReMESPRESSO) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark CReMESPRESSO — Earlier international word mark CREMESSO — Allusive element — Interdependence of criteria — Likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

28.8.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 283/40
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 13 July 2017 — Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund v EUIPO — Luigi Lavazza (CReMESPRESSO)
   (Case T-189/16) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark CReMESPRESSO - Earlier international word mark CREMESSO - Allusive element - Interdependence of criteria - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 283/60)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund (Zürich, Switzerland) (represented by: M. Treis, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: H. O’Neill and I. Moisescu, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Luigi Lavazza SpA (Turin, Italy) (represented by: M. Ricolfi and F. Tarocco, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 23 February 2016 (Case R 2823/2014-4) relating to invalidity proceedings between Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund and Luigi Lavazza.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 23 February 2016 (Case R 2823/2014-4), in so far as the Board of Appeal upheld the action brought by Luigi Lavazza SpA and partially annulled the decision of the Cancellation Division with respect to the following goods: ‘Electric ice crushers’ and ‘Ice cream makers, ice cream machines, but also coffee machines’ in Classes 7 and 11, covered by the mark at issue;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders EUIPO and Luigi Lavazza to bear, in addition to their own costs, those incurred by Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 232, 27.6.2016.