Дело T-***/**: *****************, Съдебно решение от **.**.2025 г.

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... SSIBLE – Relative ground for refusal – No likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 )

In Case T‑67/24,

Impossible Foods Inc., established in Redwood City, California (United States), represented by T. Cohen Jehoram, lawyer,

applicant,

v

European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), represented by J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agent,

defendant,

the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court, being

Impossible Foods, SL, established in Barcelona (Spain), represented by M. Gallardo Meseguer, lawyer,

THE GENERAL COURT (Eighth Chamber),

composed of A. Kornezov, President, G. De Baere and S. Kingston (Rapporteur), Judges,

Registrar: V. Di Bucci,

having regard to the written part of the procedure,

having regard to the fact that no request for a hearing was submitted by the parties within three weeks after service of notification of the close of the written part of the procedure, and having decided to rule on the action without an oral part of the procedure, pursuant to Article 106(3) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court,

gives the following

Judgment

1. By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant, Impossible Foods Inc., seeks the annulment of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 12 December 2023 (Case R 1754/2023-5) (‘the contested decision’).

Background to the dispute

2. On 27 July 2021, the intervener, Impossible Foods SL, filed an application for registration of an EU trade mark with ...