EU trade mark – Invalidity proceedings – EU word mark NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC – Earlier non-registered mark geographic – Relative ground for refusal – Use in the course of trade of a sign of more than mere local significance – Article 8(4) and Article 53(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 8(4) and Article 60(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
[2021] EUECJ T-517/20, ECLI:EU:T:2021:783
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Updated: 11 December 2021; Ref: scu.670052