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Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 7 December 2018 –  
Edison v EUIPO (EDISON)

(Case T‑471/17)

(EU trade mark — EU figurative mark EDISON — Partial surrender — Article 59 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 67 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)) — Interpretation of the terms comprising the headings to the classes of the Nice Classification and the goods on the alphabetic list to it)

| 1. | Approximation of laws — Trade marks — Directive 2008/95 — Identification of the goods or services concerned by the trade mark — Use of the general indications in the headings of the classes of the Nice classification — Extent of the resulting protection — Obligation on the applicant to specify the products or services covered by his application — Obligation laid down by a judgment of the Court — Effects — Temporal limitation  (European Parliament and Council Directive 2008/95)  (see paras 29, 31, 32, 34) |

| 2. | EU trade mark — Appeals procedure — Appeal to a Board of Appeal — Competence of the Boards of Appeal — New full examination of the merits  (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 64(1))  (see para. 59) |

| 3. | EU trade mark — Appeals procedure — Appeal brought against a decision of a unit of the Office ruling at first instance and referred to the Board of Appeal — Functional continuity between those two bodies — Examination of the appeal by the Board of Appeal — Scope  (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 64(1))  (see para. 60) |

| 4. | EU trade mark — Procedural provisions — Statement of reasons for decisions — First sentence of Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009 — Scope identical to that of Article 296 TFEU  (Art. 296 TFEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 41(2)(c); Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 75, first sentence)  (see para. 66) |

| 5. | EU trade mark — Decisions of the Office — Observance of the rights of the defence — Scope of the principle  (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 75, second sentence)  (see paras 67-69) |

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 28 April 2017 (Case R 1355/2016-5), concerning the EU figurative mark EDISON.

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Edison SpA to pay the costs. |

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