Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2024:845
Date: 2024-11-20
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Second Chamber
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Poland

Judgment of the General Court of 20 November 2024 – Domator24 v EUIPO – Acer (PREDATOR) (Case T-33/23) 1 (EU trade mark – Invalidity proceedings – EU word mark PREDATOR – Earlier EU word mark PREDATOR – Relative ground for invalidity – Likelihood of confusion – Complementarity and similarity of the goods – Article 8(1)(b) and Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(1)(b) and Article 60(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Domator24 sp. z o.o. (Zielona Góra, Poland) (represented by: T. Gawliczek, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Acer, Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan) (represented by: R. Schiffer, lawyer) Re: By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 9 November 2022 (Case R 381/2022-5). Operative part of the judgment The Court: 1. Dismisses the action; 2. Orders Domator24 sp. z o.o. to pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 94, 13.3.2023.