Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 12.11.2018 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 408/62 |

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Action brought on 25 September 2018 — Hickies v EUIPO (Shape of a shoe lace)

(Case T-573/18)

(2018/C 408/80)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Hickies, Inc. (New York, New York, United States) (represented by: I. Fowler, Solicitor and J. Schmitt, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union three-dimensional mark (Shape of a shoe lace) — Application for registration No 16 952 962

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 28 June 2018 in Case R 2693/2017-5

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision insofar as it dismissed the applicant’s appeal in relation to ‘shoe laces; shoe ornaments made of plastic; shoe trimmings; accessories for apparel, sewing articles and decorative textile articles; shoe buckles; shoe fasteners’; |

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| — | order EUIPO to pay the costs. |

Plea in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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