Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2025:997
Date: 2025-10-29
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Sixth Chamber
Procedure: Action for annulment

Judgment of the General Court of 29 October 2025 – Itron v EUIPO – Advanced Sanitairy Technologies (ITRON) (Case T-565/24) 1 (EU trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the EU word mark ITRON – Earlier EU word marks ITRON – Relative grounds for refusal – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 – Article 8(5) of Regulation 2017/1001 – Distance between the goods and services in question) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Itron, Inc. (Liberty Lake, Washington, United States) (represented by: P. Olson, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Gája, acting as Agent) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Advanced Sanitairy Technologies (Aix-en-Provence, France) Re: By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks, in essence, annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 26 August 2024 (Case R 1596/2023-1). Operative part of the judgment The Court: Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 26 August 2024 (Case R 1596-2023-1); Orders EUIPO to pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C, C/2024/7379, 16.12.2024.