Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| European flag | Official Journal  of the European Union | EN  Series C |

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|  | C/2024/953 | 29.1.2024 |

Judgment of the General Court of 29 November 2023 — Beauty Boutique v EUIPO — Lightningbolt Europe (Representation of a lightning bolt)

(Case T-12/23) [(1)](#ntr1-C_202400953EN.000101-E0001)

(EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for an EU figurative mark representing a lightning bolt - Earlier EU figurative mark representing a lightning bolt - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

(C/2024/953)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Beauty Boutique sp. z o.o. (Warsaw, Poland) (represented by: M. Nowakowski, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Ringelhann and J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Lightningbolt Europe SA (São Cosme Vale, Portugal) (represented by: P. Sousa e Silva, lawyer)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 5 October 2022 (Case R 668/2022-5).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Beauty Boutique sp. z o.o. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Lightningbolt Europe SA for the purposes of the proceedings before the General Court; |

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| 3. | Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear its own costs. |

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/953/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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