General Court (Ninth Chamber) 21 July 2016, T-804/14 (Tadeusz Ogrodnik v European Union Intellectual Property Office.)

ECLI:EU:T:2016:431 JUDGMENT OF THE GENERAL COURT (Ninth Chamber) 21 July 2016 ( * ) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark Tropical — Earlier national word mark TROPICAL — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Extent of the applicant’s rights under national law — Coexistence of the marks — Obligation to state