Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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|  | C/2025/5089 | 29.9.2025 |

Action brought on 11 August 2025 – OpenAI/EUIPO (OPENAI)

(Case T-555/25)

(C/2025/5089)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: OpenAI, Inc. (San Francisco, California, United States) (represented by: A. Klett and C. Mikyska, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union word mark OPENAI – Application for registration No 18 888 426

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 10 June 2025 in Case R 190/2025-5

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 to register the EU trademark application No 18 888 426 for the goods and services applied for in Classes 9, 42 and 45; |

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| — | order EUIPO to bear the costs of the proceedings. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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| — | Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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