Information;Order — ECLI:EU:T:2025:74
Date: 2025-01-20
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Seventh Chamber
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded

Order of the General Court of 20 January 2025 – Kudsi Alattar v EUIPO – Medelhavet Gross (Chamain) (Case T-259/24) 1 (EU trade mark – Invalidity proceedings – EU figurative mark Chamain – Earlier national word mark CHAMAIN – Admissibility of evidence submitted for the first time before the Board of Appeal – Relative ground for invalidity – Comparison of the signs – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/ 1001 – Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Tarek Kudsi Alattar (Damascus, Syria) (represented by: J. Gallego Jiménez, E. Sanz Valls, P. Bauzá Martínez and Y. Hernández Viñes, lawyers) 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: Medelhavet Gross AB (Laholm, Sweden) Re: By his 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 27 February 2024 (joined cases R 1258/2023-2 and R 1588/2023-2). Operative part of the order The Court: 1. Dismisses the action as manifestly lacking any foundation in law. 2. Orders each party to bear its own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C C/2024/3923, 1.7.2024.