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Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 26 July 2017 — Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen v EUIPO

(Case C‑471/16 P) (
[1](#t-ECR_62016CJ0471_INF_EN_01-E0001)
)

Appeal — EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for registration of the figurative mark including the word element ‘meissen’ — Rejection of the opposition — Evidence presented for the first time — Distortion — Genuine use of the earlier trade marks — Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 7(3)– Article 8(5) — Link between the trade marks to be compared)

| 1. | EU trade mark—Appeals procedure—Action before the EU judicature—Jurisdiction of the General Court—Re-evaluation of the facts in the light of evidence produced for the first time before it—Precluded  (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 65)  (see paras 24, 25) |

| 2. | Judicial proceedings—Statement of reasons for judgments—Scope  (Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 36 and 53, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 117)  (see para. 28) |

| 3. | Appeal—Grounds—Lack of specific criticism of a point of the General Court’s reasoning and of legal arguments in support of the appeal—Inadmissibility  (Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 168(1)(d) and 169(2))  (see paras 34, 35) |

| 4. | EU trade mark—Definition and acquisition of the EU trade mark—Relative grounds for refusal—Opposition by the proprietor of an earlier identical or similar mark enjoying a reputation—Protection of well-known earlier mark extended to dissimilar goods or services—Conditions—Link between the marks—Criteria for assessment  (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 8(5))  (see paras 50-53) |

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the appeal; |

| 2. | Orders Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH to pay the costs. |

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(
[1](#c-ECR_62016CJ0471_INF_EN_01-E0001)
) [OJ C 454, 5.12.2016](./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=OJ:C:2016:454:TOC).

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