Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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|  | C/2025/4473 | 18.8.2025 |

Action brought on 21 June 2025 – Groupvet v EUIPO – Philipp (ALFAVET)

(Case T-403/25)

(C/2025/4473)

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Groupvet EE (Thessaloniki, Greece) (represented by: O. Dimina, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Loretta Philipp (Hitzhusen, Germany)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court

Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union figurative mark ALFAVET – Application for registration No 18 818 375

Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 24 April 2025 in Case R 1869/2024-1

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision insofar as it rejected the application for all goods in Classes 3, 10 (partially), 31, and services in Class 44; |

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| — | order EUIPO to bear the costs; |

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| — | order the intervener, if any, to bear its own cost. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 33(7) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council; |

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| — | Infringement of general principles of Union law to avoid the need for proof of use; |

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| — | Infringement of the procedural rules of locus standi for filing an opposition. |

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