Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2023:97
Date: 2023-03-01
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Second Chamber
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Czechia

Judgment of the General Court of 1 March 2023 – Crush Series Publishing v EUIPO – Mediaproduccion (The Crush Series) (Case T-295/22) 1 (EU trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for EU figurative mark The Crush Series – Earlier EU figurative mark CRUSH – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Crush Series Publishing s.r.o. (Prague, Czech Republic) (represented by: D.-M. Belciu, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: L. Lapinskaitė and J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agents) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Mediaproduccion SLU (Barcelona, Spain) Re: By its action based on Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment and alteration of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 15 March 2022 (Case R 1303/2021-5). Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Crush Series Publishing s.r.o. to pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 257, 4.7.2022.