Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 14.11.2022 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 432/24 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 14 September 2022 — Itinerant Show Room v EUIPO — Save the Duck (ITINERANT)

(Case T-417/21) [(1)](#ntr1-C_2022432EN.01002401-E0001)

(EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU figurative mark ITINERANT - Earlier EU figurative mark representing a duck singing in a circle - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Similarity - Repute - Link - Unfair advantage - No due cause - Article 95(2) of Regulation 2017/1001 - Article 27(4) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625 - Document produced for the first time before the Board of Appeal - Inadmissibility)

(2022/C 432/28)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant: Itinerant Show Room Srl (San Giorgio in Bosco, Italy) (represented by: E. Montelione, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Save the Duck SpA (Milan, Italy) (represented by: M. De Vietro, lawyer)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks annulment of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 12 May 2021 (Case R 1017/2020-5) in relation to opposition proceedings between the intervener and the applicant.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Itinerant Show Room Srl to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Save the Duck SpA. |

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