Official Journal of the European Union

C series

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C/2025/3042

(Case T-83/20 RENV)

(EU trade mark - Revocation proceedings - EU word mark tagesschau - Genuine use of a mark - First subparagraph of Article 18(1), and Article 58(1)(a) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Obligation to state reasons - Right to be heard - Article 94(1) of Regulation 2017/1001)

(C/2025/3042)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: bonnanwalt Vermögens- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (Bonn, Germany) (represented by: T. Wendt, lawyer)

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

Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, interveners before the General Court: Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich, Germany) and the eight other interveners whose names are listed in the annex to the judgment (represented by: B. Krause, lawyer)

Intervener in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Erlbacher and C. Urraca Caviedes, acting as Agents)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment and the alteration of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 12 December 2019 (Case R 1487/2019-2).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Dismisses the action;

2.Orders Bayerischer Rundfunk and the other interveners whose names are listed in the annex to bear their own costs and to pay the costs incurred by bonnanwalt Vermögens- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH in relation to the proceedings in Case C-580/22 P;

3.Orders bonnanwalt Vermögens- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Bayerischer Rundfunk and the other interveners whose names are listed in the annex in relation to the proceedings in Case T-83/20 and the present proceedings on referral;

4.Declares that the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the European Commission are to bear their own costs.

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OJ C 114, 6.4.2020.

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/3042/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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