Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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Judgment of the General Court of 16 October 2024 – Freistaat Bayern v EUIPO – Bundesverband Souvenir Geschenke Ehrenpreise (Neuschwanstein)

(Case T-506/23)
 [(1)](#ntr1-C_202407165EN.000101-E0001)

(EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU word mark Neuschwanstein - Earlier business names Neuschwanstein and Schloss Neuschwanstein - Relative ground for invalidity - Article 8(4) and Article 53(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(4) and Article 60(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

(C/2024/7165)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Freistaat Bayern (Germany) (represented by: M. Müller, lawyer)

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

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Bundesverband Souvenir Geschenke Ehrenpreise eV (Veitsbronn, Germany) (represented by: B. Bittner and U. Heinrich, lawyers)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 22 May 2023 (Case R 1013/2021-5).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Freistaat Bayern to pay the costs. |

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/7165/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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