48Secondly, and in so far as this ground of appeal in essence criticises the General Court for having failed to take account, in the exercise of its power to alter decisions, of the evidence in the file of the mark at issue and that adduced before the Board of Appeal, it should be borne in mind that the General Court’s power to alter decisions does not have the effect of conferring on that court the power to carry out an assessment on which the Board of Appeal has not yet adopted a position. Exercise of the power to alter decisions must therefore, in principle, be limited to situations in which the General Court, after reviewing the assessment made by the Board of Appeal, is in a position to determine, on the basis of the matters of fact and of law as established, what decision the Board of Appeal was required to take (Case C-263/09 P Edwin v OHIM [2011] ECR I-5853, paragraph 72).
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