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(EU trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for EU word mark TAXMARC - Earlier EU figurative mark X TAXMAN - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Relevant public - Conceptual similarity)
(C/2025/3279)
Language of the case: English
Applicant: Taxolutions BV (Sint-Michielsgestel, Netherlands) (represented by: R. Stoop, lawyer)
Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Stoyanova-Valchanova and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co. KG (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) (represented by: N. Hebeis, lawyer)
By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the partial annulment of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 10 October 2023 (Case R 131/2021-5).
The Court:
1.Annuls the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 10 October 2023 (Case R 131/2021-5) in so far as it dismissed the appeal brought by Taxolutions BV;
2.Orders EUIPO to pay the costs of the present proceedings;
3.Orders Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co. KG to bear its own costs and to pay the costs necessarily incurred by Taxolutions for the purposes of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal.
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(1) OJ C C/2024/1254, 12.2.2024.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/3279/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
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