Дело T-***/**: *****************, Съдебно решение от **.**.2024 г.

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... ative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

In Case T‑164/23,

Drinks Prod SRL, established in Păntășești (Romania), represented by I. Speciac, lawyer,

applicant,

v

European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), represented by I. Stoycheva and D. Gája, acting as Agents,

defendant,

the other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, interveners before the General Court, being

Siegfried Wolff, residing in Berlin (Germany),

Matthias Illg, residing in Berlin,

represented by R. Kunz-Hallstein, lawyer,

THE GENERAL COURT (Sixth Chamber),

composed of M.J. Costeira, President, U. Öberg and P. Zilgalvis (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, Drinks Prod SRL, seeks the annulment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 19 January 2023 (Case R 982/2022-2) (‘the contested decision’).

Background to the dispute

2. On 2 November 2020, the applicant filed an application for registration of an EU trade mark with EUIPO for the following figurative sign:

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