Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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|  | C/2025/3423 | 30.6.2025 |

Action brought on 2 May 2025 – Global Rice v EUIPO – Ricegrowers (Representation of the sun and of arabic characters)

(Case T-283/25)

(C/2025/3423)

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Global Rice EOOD (Sofia, Bulgaria) (represented by: H. Raychev, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Ricegrowers Ltd (Leeton, New South Wales, Australia)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal

Trade mark at issue: European Union figurative mark (Representation of the sun and of arabic characters) – European Union trade mark No 18 130 985

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 17 March 2025 in Case R 1476/2024-5

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision; |

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| — | order EUIPO and intervener to bear their own costs and to pay the applicant’s costs in the present proceedings, as well as in the proceedings before the Fifth Board of Appeal. |

Plea in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 60(1)(c) read together with Article 8(4) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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