Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2025:146
Date: 2025-02-12
Language of the case: Swedish
Court formation: Seventh Chamber
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded;Action for annulment

Action brought on 26 July 2023 – Essity Hygiene and Health AB v EUIPO (Representation of a leaf) (Case T-434/23) Language of the case: Swedish Parties Applicant: Essity Hygiene and Health AB (Gothenburg, Sweden) (represented by: U. Wennermark, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) Details of the proceedings before EUIPO Trade mark at issue: Application for registration of an EU figurative mark (Representation of a leaf) – Application No 16 709 305 Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 30 May 2023 in Case R 2196/2017-4 Form of order sought The applicant claims primarily that the Court should: annul the contested decision in so far as the appeal is dismissed (point two of the operative part of the decision); amend the contested decision by granting the appeal against the examiner’s decision for goods in Class 16 covered by the application; order EUIPO to pay the applicant’s costs incurred before EUIPO and before the Court. The applicant claims in the alternative that the Court should: order EUIPO to bear its own legal costs and, in addition, pay the applicant’s costs incurred before the Court. The applicant claims in the further alternative that the Court should: order EUIPO to pay its costs incurred before the Court. Pleas in law Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Infringement of Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. ____________