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(C/2025/2386)
Language of the case: English
Applicant: Kapitan Navi Elżbieta Stramek i Waldemar Karpiński sp.j. (Trzebiatów, Poland) (represented by: A. Brudnoch, lawyer)
Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: R. Raponi, acting as Agent)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Homann Feinkost GmbH (Bad Essen, Germany) (represented by: C. von Nussbaum, lawyer)
By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment and the alteration of the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 14 December 2023 (Case R 287/2023-5).
The Court:
1.Dismisses the action;
2.Orders Kapitan Navi Elżbieta Stramek i Waldemar Karpiński sp.j., in addition to bearing its own costs, to pay those incurred by Homann Feinkost GmbH for the purposes of the proceedings before the Court;
3.Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear its own costs.
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(1) OJ C C/2024/2331, 2.4.2024.
ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2386/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)
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