Judgment;Information — ECLI:EU:T:2024:351
Date: 2024-06-05
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Third Chamber
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded

Judgment of the General Court of 5 June 2024 – Enterprise Holdings v EUIPO – Qommute (COMMUTE WITH ENTERPRISE) (Case T-500/23) 1 (EU trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the EU word mark COMMUTE WITH ENTERPRISE – Earlier EU word mark Qommute – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Enterprise Holdings, Inc. (Saint-Louis, Missouri, United States) (represented by: M. Forde, Solicitor) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: T. Frydendahl, acting as Agent) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Qommute (Marseille, France) (represented by S. Sioën-Gallina, lawyer) Re: By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment and the alteration of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 1 June 2023 (Case R 989/2022-5). Operative part of the judgment The Court: 1. Dismisses the action; 2. Orders Enterprise Holdings, Inc. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Qommute; 3. Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear its own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 338, 25.9.2023.