84In the first place, concerning the applicant’s argument relating to the previous decision-making practice of the Boards of Appeal, which allegedly found a similarity between, on the one hand, leather and animal skins as semi-manufactured goods and, on the other, goods manufactured using these materials, it must be borne in mind that it follows from established case-law that decisions concerning registration of a sign as a trade mark which the Boards of Appeal are called on to take under Regulation No 207/2009, regarding the registration of a sign as a European Union mark, are adopted in the exercise of circumscribed powers and are not a matter of discretion. Accordingly, the legality of those decisions must be assessed solely on the basis of that regulation and not on the basis of any previous decision-making practice (judgment of 26 April 2007, Alcon v OHIM, C‑412/05 P, EU:C:2007:252, paragraph 65, and judgment of 24 November 2005, Sadas v OHIM — LTJ Diffusion (ARTHUR ET FELICIE), T‑346/04, EU:T:2005:420, paragraph 71). In addition, and in any event, it must be noted that the Court has already found that ‘leather and imitations of leather’ and goods from those materials, such as bags, suitcases, umbrellas, parasols, sticks, such as those protected, in the present case, by the earlier mark, were not similar (see, to that effect, judgment of 25 November 2010, Vidieffe v OHIM — Ellis International Group (GOTHA), T‑169/09, not published, EU:T:2010:484, paragraphs 7 and 29).
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