Case T-448/24: Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2025 – JSherwood v EUIPO – INA International (JSherWood wear it with pride) (EU trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for EU figurative mark JSherWood wear it with pride – Earlier EU word marks SHER-WOOD and SHER-WOOD SL and earlier EU figurative mark SHERWOOD – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Similarity between products – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
Date: 2025-09-10
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU trade mark, advertising, clothing, footwear industry, leather, protective equipment, registered trade mark, sports equipment, textile product, trade-mark law








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Official Journal of the European Union


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C/2025/5707


3.11.2025






Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2025 – JSherwood v EUIPO – INA International (JSherWood wear it with pride)


(Case T-448/24)
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(EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark JSherWood wear it with pride - Earlier EU word marks SHER-WOOD and SHER-WOOD SL and earlier EU figurative mark SHERWOOD - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity between products - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
(C/2025/5707)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: JSherwood sp. z o.o. (Warsaw, Poland) (represented by: E. Delert-Wiącek, lawyer)

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

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: INA International Ltd (Calgary, Canada)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment and alteration of the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 18 June 2024 (Case R 2004/2023-4).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 18 June 2024 (Case R 2004/2023-4) in so far as it dismissed the appeal against the Cancellation Division’s decision of 25 July 2023 relating to the EU figurative mark JSherWood wear it with pride as regards the goods in Classes 9 and 25 of the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of 15 June 1957, as revised and amended, corresponding, for each of those classes, to the following description:







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Class 9: ‘Trousers for protection against accidents, irradiation and fire’;











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Class 25: ‘Garments for protecting clothing’, ‘paper hats [clothing]’, ‘baby bibs [not of paper]’ and ‘plastic baby bibs’;















2.


Dismisses the opposition to registration of the figurative mark JSherWood wear it with pride as an EU trade mark as regards the goods mentioned in point 1 above;










3.


Dismisses the action as to the remainder;










4.


Orders JSherwood sp. z o.o. and EUIPO each to bear their own costs.






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            OJ C, C/2024/5851, 7.10.2024.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/5707/oj
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