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|  | C/2025/719 | 10.2.2025 |

Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2024 – López-Ibor Aliño v EUIPO – Dimensión Estratégica Quality Research (LOPEZ-IBOR ABOGADOS)

(Case T-672/22)
 [(1)](#ntr1-C_202500719EN.000101-E0001)

(EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the EU figurative mark LOPEZ-IBOR ABOGADOS - Earlier EU word mark ESTUDIO JURIDICO INTERNACIONAL LOPEZ-IBOR MAYOR & ASOCIADOS - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Likelihood of confusion - Genuine use of the earlier mark)

(C/2025/719)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Alfonso López-Ibor Aliño (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: A. Vela Ballesteros and C. Fernández-Vega Feijóo, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Gája, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Dimensión Estratégica Quality Research, SL (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: M. Vicario Trinidad and E. García Coso, lawyers)

Re:

By his action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks, in essence, the annulment and alteration of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 6 September 2022 (Case R 500/2022-1).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismiss the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Alfonso López-Ibor Aliño to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by Dimensión Estratégica Quality Research, SL; |

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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/2025/719/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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