Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 24.7.2023 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 261/31 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 7 June 2023 — DDR Kultur v EUIPO — Groupe Canal+ (THE PLANET)

(Case T-47/22) [(1)](#ntr1-C_2023261EN.01003101-E0001)

(EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU figurative mark THE PLANET - Earlier EU figurative mark PLANÈTE + - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

(2023/C 261/43)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: DDR Kultur UG (haftungsbeschränkt) (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: I. Yeboah, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Bosse and D. Gája, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Groupe Canal+, (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) (represented by M. Georges-Picot and C. Cuny, lawyers)

Re:

By its 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 25 November 2021 (Case R 2385/2020-2).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 25 November 2021 (Case R 2385/2020-2); |

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| 2. | Orders EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by DDR Kultur UG (haftungsbeschränkt) in the proceedings before the Court; |

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| 3. | Orders Groupe Canal+ to bear its own costs. |

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