Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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|  | C/2025/4812 | 8.9.2025 |

Action brought on 11 July 2025 – Absara Industrial v EUIPO – Hansgrohe (KROMAT)

(Case T-467/25)

(C/2025/4812)

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Absara Industrial, SL (San Juan de Moró, Spain) (represented by: M. March Cabrelles, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Hansgrohe SE (Schiltach, Germany)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court

Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union word mark KROMAT – Application for registration No 18 292 227

Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 May 2025 in Case R 22/2024-2

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | partially annul the contested decision, insofar as the appeal was rejected and to the extent that the trade mark at issue was rejected for goods in class 11; |

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| — | order EUIPO to grant the trade mark at issue for all goods requested; |

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| — | order EUIPO and the interveners to pay the costs of the proceeding before the Court of Justice; and the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal to bear the costs of the opposition and appeal proceedings. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 47 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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