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(2023/C 338/53)
Language in which the application was lodged: English
Applicant: Fidia farmaceutici SpA (Abano Terme, Italy) (represented by: R. Kunz-Hallstein, lawyer)
Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Vorwarts Pharma sp. z o.o. (Białystok, Poland)
Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union word mark HYALERA — Application for registration No 18 195 287
Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 17 May 2023 in Case R 230/2023-5
The applicant claims that the Court should:
—annul the contested decision;
—order EUIPO to pay the costs; in the alternative, should the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal intervene, order EUIPO and the intervener jointly and severally to pay the costs.
—Violation of the principles of equal treatment and sound administration;
—Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and of the principle of coexistence of national and Union trade marks as regards the characterisation of the earlier registered trade mark as descriptive, indistinctive and incapable to give rise to confusion;
—Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and of the principle of coexistence of national and Union trade marks as regards the decisions and evidence relied upon and the line of argument used;
—Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the absence of a likelihood of confusion.