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

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... registration of earlier word mark labcore – Relative ground for refusal – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) – No genuine use of the earlier trade mark – Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 47(2) and (3) of Regulation 2017/1001))

In Case T‑673/22,

Dr. Neumann & Kindler GmbH & Co. KG, established in Bochum (Germany), represented by T. Pfeifer and N. Gottschalk, lawyers,

applicant,

v

European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), represented by D. Gája, R. Raponi and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents,

defendant,

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

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, established in Burlington, North Carolina (United States), represented by R. Kunze, lawyer,

THE GENERAL COURT (Seventh Chamber),

composed of K. Kowalik-Bańczyk (Rapporteur), President, G. Hesse and I. Dimitrakopoulos, Judges,

Registrar: G. Mitrev, Administrator,

having regard to the written part of the procedure,

further to the hearing on 30 November 2023,

gives the following

Judgment

1. By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant, Dr. Neumann & Kindler GmbH & Co. KG, seeks the annulment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 25 August 2022 (Case R 182/2021-2) (‘the contested decision’).

Background to the dispute

2. On 2 March 2016, the intervener, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, filed an application for registration of an EU trade mark with EUIPO ...