Under the BoA Action Plan 2021-2026, the Consistency Circles participate to the improvement of the quality by developing a more consistent and coherent decisional practice further aligned with the case-law of the GC and CJEU. To that aim and as a result of discussions within the Consistency Circles and the General Consistency Meeting of the Boards, Case-law Research Reports are regularly published on the EUIPO website, they are working document and should not be considered to have any binding effect on the Boards of Appeal.