Дело T-***/**: *****************, Съдебно решение от **.**.2023 г.

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... Relative ground for refusal – No likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 – Article 95(1) of Regulation 2017/1001)

In Case T‑745/21,

Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien GmbH, established in Freyburg (Germany), represented by K. Schmidt-Hern and A. Lubberger, lawyers,

applicant,

v

European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), represented by R. Raponi, acting as Agent,

defendant,

the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO being

Cantina Sociale Cooperativa San Donaci, established in San Donaci (Italy),

THE GENERAL COURT (Seventh Chamber),

composed of K. Kowalik-Bańczyk, President, E. Buttigieg and B. Ricziová (Rapporteur), Judges,

Registrar: R. Ūkelytė, Administrator,

having regard to the written part of the procedure,

further to the hearing on 16 March 2023,

gives the following

Judgment

1. By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant, Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien GmbH seeks the annulment of the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 20 September 2021 (Case R 130/2021-4) (‘the contested decision’).

Background to the dispute

2. On 14 June 2019, the other party to the proceedings before EUIPO, Cantina Sociale Cooperativa San Donaci, filed an application with EUIPO for registration of an EU trade mark in respect of the word sign Passo Lungo.

3. The mark applied for covered goods in Class 33 of the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of 15 June 1957, as revised and amended, corresponding, for that class, to ...