JUDGMENT OF THE GENERAL COURT (Seventh Chamber) 1. October 2025 (*) ( EU trade mark – Invalidity proceedings – EU word mark teamplay – Earlier national word mark TEAMPLAY – Relative ground for invalidity – Genuine use of the earlier mark – Article 57(5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – Article 15(1) of Regulation No 207/2009 – Independent subcategory of goods and services – Likelihood of confusion – Similarity between the goods and services – Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation No 207/2009 ) In Case T‑1175/23, Siemens Healthineers AG, established in Forchheim (Germany), represented by M. Taxhet, lawyer, applicant, v European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), represented by D. Stoyanova-Valchanova, acting as Agent, defendant, the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO being Sunware s. r. o., established in Prague (Czech Republic), THE GENERAL COURT (Seventh Chamber), Composed, at the time of the deliberations, of K. Kowalik-Bańczyk, President, E. Buttigieg (Rapporteur) and I. Dimitrakopoulos, Judges, Registrar: J. Čuboň, Administrator, having regard to the written part of the procedure, further to the hearing on 23 January 2025, gives the following Judgment 1. By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant, Siemens Healthineers AG, seeks the annulment and alteration of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 3 October 2023 (Case R 747/2022-5) (‘the contested decision’). I. Background to the dispute 2. On 17 July 2020, the other party to the proceedings before the ... Прочетете още