Judgment_paragraph 25 · ADS L. Kowalik, B. Włodarczyk s.c. v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-611/21)

25EUIPO contends, in the first place, that the Board of Appeal properly exercised its discretion to admit the evidence submitted by the other party to the proceedings before it, the conditions laid down in Article 27(4) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625 of 5 March 2018, supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Union trade mark, and repealing Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1430 (OJ 2018 L 104, p. 1), being met in the present case. In the second place, it points out that, since the applicant had not contested such admission, that board was under no obligation to provide express reasons for the admission.