Judgment of the General Court of 9 December 2020 – easyCosmetic Swiss v EUIPO – UWI (easycosmetic)

(Case T-858/19) ¹

(EU trade mark – Invalidity proceedings – EU word mark easyCosmetic – Absolute ground for refusal – Descriptive character – Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: easyCosmetic Swiss GmbH (Baar, Switzerland) (represented by: D. Terheggen and S. Sullivan, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Söder and M. Fischer, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: UWI Unternehmensberatungs- und Wirtschaftsinformations GmbH (Bad Nauheim, Germany) (represented by: M. Krisch, T. Guttau and V. Wellens, lawyers)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 October 2019 (Case R 973/2019-2), relating to invalidity proceedings between UWI and easyCosmetic Swiss.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.    Dismisses the action;

2.    Orders EasyCosmetic Swiss GmbH to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO);

3.    Orders UWI Unternehmensberatungs- und Wirtschaftsinformations GmbH to bear its own costs.

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¹     OJ C 45, 10.2.2020.