do-me/EUR-LEX huggingface dataset:
Cases T-608/23, T-609/23 and T-611/23: Judgment of the General Court of 26 March 2025 – Hamster Polska v EUIPO – Budotechnika (Public toilets) (Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered Community designs representing public toilets – Grounds for invalidity – Features of appearance of a product solely dictated by its technical function – Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 – Disclosure of earlier designs – Degree of freedom of the designer – Individual character – Informed user – Different overall impression – Articles 6 and 7 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation No 6/2002 – Obligation to state reasons – Article 62 of Regulation No 6/2002)
Date: 2025-03-26
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: community facilities, designs and models, plumbing equipment








C_202502530EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/2530


12.5.2025






Judgment of the General Court of 26 March 2025 – Hamster Polska v EUIPO – Budotechnika (Public toilets)


(Cases T-608/23, T-609/23 and T-611/23)
                (1)

(Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community designs representing public toilets - Grounds for invalidity - Features of appearance of a product solely dictated by its technical function - Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Disclosure of earlier designs - Degree of freedom of the designer - Individual character - Informed user - Different overall impression - Articles 6 and 7 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation No 6/2002 - Obligation to state reasons - Article 62 of Regulation No 6/2002)
(C/2025/2530)
Language of the case: Polish

Parties


Applicant: Hamster Polska sp. z o.o. (Rybnik, Poland) (represented by: A. Szczurek, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas and M. Chylińska, Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Budotechnika sp. z o.o. (Pilchowice, Poland) (represented by: A. Pilecka and M. Witkowska, lawyers)

Re:

By its actions under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment and alteration of three decisions of the Third Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 4 August 2023 (Cases R 2/2023-3, R 14/2023-3 and R 49/2023-3).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Joins Cases T-608/23, T-609/23 and T-611/23 for the purposes of the judgment;










2.


Dismisses the actions;










3.


Orders Hamster Polska sp. z o.o. to pay the costs incurred in the proceedings before the General Court.






(1)  
            OJ C C/2023/777, 20.11.2023.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2530/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
Case T-348/24: Judgment of the General Court of 26 March 2025 – Cannafair v EUIPO (Cannafair) (EU trade mark – Application for the EU word mark Cannafair – Absolute ground for refusal – Descriptive character – Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
Date: 2025-03-26
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, catering, narcotic, quality control of agricultural products, registered trade mark, trade event, trade-mark law








C_202502540EN.000101.fmx.xml












Official Journal of the European Union


EN
C series













C/2025/2540


12.5.2025






Judgment of the General Court of 26 March 2025 – Cannafair v EUIPO (Cannafair)


(Case T-348/24)
                (1)

(EU trade mark - Application for the EU word mark Cannafair - Absolute ground for refusal - Descriptive character - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
(C/2025/2540)
Language of the case: German

Parties


Applicant: Cannafair GmbH (Wuppertal, Germany) (represented by: D. Fischer, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: T. Klee, acting as Agent)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant asks the Court, first, to annul the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 2 May 2024 (Case R 2592/2023-5) and, secondly, to order EUIPO to publish the application for registration in respect of the designated services in Class 35.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the action;










2.


Orders the parties to bear their own costs.






(1)  
            OJ C C/2024/5116, 26.8.2024.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2540/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)