Class 46 learns that an appeal has been lodged with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) against the General Court's decision in Case T-580/13 Real Express v MIP Metro. This was a decision to dismiss Real's challenge to the Board of Appeal's rejection of its opposition, brought against MIP Metro's application to register the mark on the right as a Community trade mark -- both parties' figurative marks containing the dominant word REAL and covering goods and services in Classes 3 and 35. Frustratingly, the General Court decision on Curia doesn't appear to show either party's mark, but both can be seen in the Board of Appeal ruling.

It's one of those procedural cases you never want to be involved in, where the General Court's summary of the facts is considerably longer than its decision and the result was that Real Express's appeal was deemed partly inadmissable and partly unsubstantiated by law. 

When it gets to the CJEU it will have a new number, C-309/15 P.  If you'd like to advise the UK Government as to how you think it should go, please do so by 16 December by emailing policy@ipo.gov.uk.