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|  | C/2025/3550 | 7.7.2025 |

Action brought on 13 May 2025 – SBG v EUIPO – VF International (GEOGRAPHICAL NORWAY EXPEDITION)

(Case T-303/25)

(C/2025/3550)

Language in which the application was lodged: French

Parties

Applicant: Super Brand Licencing (SBG) (Villeurbanne, France) (represented by: T. de Haan and A. Sion, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: VF International Sagl (Stabio, Switzerland)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant

Trade mark at issue: EU figurative mark GEOGRAPHICAL NORWAY EXPEDITION – EU trade mark No 9 860 834

Proceedings before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 March 2025 in Case R 124/2022-2

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | principally, annul and alter the contested decision to the effect that EU mark No 9 860 834 was not filed in bad faith on 1 April 2011; |

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| — | in the alternative, annul the contested decision; |

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| — | order EUIPO and the intervener to pay the costs, including the costs incurred by the applicant for the purposes of the proceedings before the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO. |

Plea in law

Infringement of Article 52(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009.

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