Repsol v EUIPO – Basic (Basic) (EU Trade Mark – Judgment): ECFI 9 Dec 2020

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

Citations:

ECLI:EU:T:2020:592, T-722/18, [2020] EUECJ T-722/18

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

European

Intellectual Property

Updated: 24 October 2022; Ref: scu.660749