Case C-581/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Baden-Württemberg (Germany) lodged on 4 October 2017 — Martin Wächtler v Finanzamt Konstanz

15.1.2018 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 13/5 3. Failure to assess the applicant’s prior EUTM 3971561 The applicant also claims that EUIPO and the General Court ought to have considered the reasons (thus considering such decisions not as binding precedents but as marks allowed on the grounds of the legally recognition of their registrability) that led to the grant of community trade mark No 3971561, which belongs to the applicant too, for the same goods and having a sign very similar to that of the sign refused. 4. Failure to assess other marks registered as ‘colour combinations’ In the earlier stages of the present proceedings other EU trade marks that represent very important precedents with regard to the present case were mentioned. Refusal of registration of the trade mark at issue appears, therefore, unreasonable, if not entirely groundless, and constitutes an error in law, if the earlier decisions are regarded not as binding precedents but rather as the expression of principles of law repeatedly affirmed by EUIPO and the General Court of the European Union. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Wojewódzki Sąd Administracyjny we Wrocławiu (Poland) lodged on 26 September 2017 — Związek Gmin Zagłębia Miedziowego w Polkowicach v Szef Krajowej Administracji Skarbowej (Case C-566/17) (2018/C 013/05) Language of the case: Polish Referring court Wojewódzki Sąd Administracyjny we Wrocławiu Parties to the main proceedings Applicant: Związek...