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Action brought on 23 January 2025 – Wyrębski v EUIPO – Gagatek-Woźniak and Others (BLUE BRAND CHICKEN)

(Case T-44/25)

(C/2025/1452)

Language in which the application was lodged: Polish

Parties

Applicant: Grzegorz Wyrębski (Wróblew, Poland) (represented by: A. Skup, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Anna Gagatek-Woźniak (Wieluń, Poland), Artur Woźniak (Wieluń), Jolanta Piesik (Wieluń)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal

Trade mark at issue: EU figurative mark ‘BLUE BRAND CHICKEN’ – EU trade mark No 13 071 378

Proceedings before EUIPO: Invalidity proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 November 2024 in Case R 1166/2020-4

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | alter the contested decision: by dismissing the appeal against the decision of EUIPO’s Cancellation Division of 16 April 2020, No 19 904 C, by confirming the invalidity of the trade mark ‘BLUE BRAND CHICKEN’ in its entirety and by ordering the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal to pay the applicant the costs of the proceedings before EUIPO’s Board of Appeal; |

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| — | order EUIPO and the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal to pay the costs of the proceedings before the General Court. |

In the alternative, the applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision; |

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| — | order EUIPO and the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal to pay the costs of the proceedings before the General Court. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 72(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 52(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009; |

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| — | Infringement of the obligation to state reasons, stemming from Article 94(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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