Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 14.3.2022 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 119/54 |

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Action brought on 24 January 2022 — International Masis Tabak v EUIPO — Philip Morris Brands (Representation of a pack of cigarettes)

(Case T-44/22)

(2022/C 119/77)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: International Masis Tabak LLC (Masis, Armenia) (represented by: C. Bercial Arias and K. Dimidjian-Lecompte, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Philip Morris Brands Sàrl (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court

Trade mark at issue: International registration designating the European Union in respect of the figurative mark (Representation of a pack of cigarettes) — International registration designating the European Union No 1 434 506

Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 15 November 2021 in Case R 261/2021-5

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | upheld the appeal and annul the contested decision; |

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| — | order EUIPO and the intervener, if it was the case, to bear the costs incurred by the applicant before the General Court. |

Plea in law

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| — | Infringement of article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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