Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2020:398
Date: 2020-09-09
Language of the case: German
Court formation: Second Chamber
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded

Action brought on 19 September 2019 — Daw v EUIPO (SOS Innenfarbe) (Case T-625/19) Language of the case: German Parties Applicant: Daw SE (Ober-Ramstadt, Germany) (represented by: A. Haberl, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) Details of the proceedings before EUIPO Trade mark at issue: Registration of the European Union word mark ‘SOS Innenfarbe’ — Application for registration No 17 870 690 Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 July 2019 in Case R 277/2019-4 Form of order sought The applicant claims that the Court should: annul the contested decision; annul the Decision of EUIPO of 7 January 2019 in so far as it rejects the application for registration of the mark ‘SOS Innenfarbe’ in respect of the following goods in Class 2: ‘Paints, lacquers, lasures, paints, preservatives against rust; Primers; Dyes, colorants, paint paste, mordants; Thickeners for colours; Fixing solutions, siccatives for colours; Thinners and binders for paints, lacquers and coatings; Solvents for thinning paints; Preservatives for wood, wood mordants and wood preservatives; Coatings, including textured; bactericides and/or fungicides; Corrosion inhibiting admixtures; Protective preparations for metals’; order EUIPO to allow the application for registration to be published, as lodged; order EUIPO to pay the costs. Plea in law Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (c) and (2) of Regulation No 2017/1001. ____________