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European Union – Trade marks. The General Court of the European Union annulled the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) in so far as the Board had rejected as inadmissible the opposition based on art 8(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (on the Community trade mark) with regard to the signs relied on by Debonair Trading Internacional Ldª so far as the United Kingdom and Ireland were concerned. The action was dismissed as to the remainder.
European Union – Trade marks. The General Court of the European Union annulled the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) in so far as the Board had rejected as inadmissible the opposition based on art 8(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (on the Community trade mark) with regard to the signs relied on by Debonair Trading Internacional Ldª so far as the United Kingdom and Ireland were concerned. The action was dismissed as to the remainder.
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