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(EU trade mark – Invalidity proceedings – EU figurative 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 52(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(4) and Article 60(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
VF International Sagl, established in Stabio (Switzerland), represented by T. van Innis and A. Van der Planken, lawyers,
European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), represented by M. Fischer and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents,
the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, and intervener before the General Court, being
National Geographic Society, established in Washington, District of Columbia (United States), represented by S. Malynicz QC, and C. de Haas, lawyer,
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[2023] ECHR 69
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