Action brought on 19 July 2019 – Lego v EUIPO – Delta Sport Handelskontor (Building blocks from a toy building set)
(Case T-515/19)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Lego A/S (Billund, Denmark) (represented by: V. von Bomhard and J. Fuhrmann, lawyers)
Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Delta Sport Handelskontor GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)
Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
Proprietor of the design at issue: Applicant before the General Court
Design at issue: Registered Community design No 1 664 368-0006
Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 10 April 2019 in Case R 31/2018-3
Form of order sought
The applicant claims that the Court should:
annul the contested decision;
maintain the decision of the Design Invalidity Division of EUIPO of 30 October 2017 rejecting the application for declaration of invalidity of the registered Community design No 1 664 368-0006;
order EUIPO and, if the other party to the proceedings before EUIPO intervenes, the intervener, to bear the costs of the proceedings.
Pleas in law
Infringement of Article 8(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002;
Infringement of Article 8(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002;
Infringement of Article 62 of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002.
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