Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2025:648
Date: 2025-07-02
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Third Chamber
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded

Judgment of the General Court of 2 July 2025 – Camilla and Marc Operations v EUIPO – C&A (C&M) (Case T-380/24) 1 (EU trade mark – Opposition proceedings – International registration designating the European Union – Figurative mark C&M – Earlier EU word mark C&A – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Visual and phonetic similarity – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Camilla and Marc Operations Pty Ltd (Waterloo, Australia) (represented by: J. van Manen and A. Heemskerk, lawyers) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: M. Eberl, acting as Agent) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: C&A AG (Baar, Switzerland) (represented by: K. Guridi Sedlak, lawyer) Re: By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 21 May 2024 (Case R 1667/2023-2). Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Camilla and Marc Operations Pty Ltd to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by C&A AG; Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear its own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C, C/2024/5329, 9.9.2024.