Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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|  | C/2025/1554 | 17.3.2025 |

Action brought on 23 January 2025 – Puma v EUIPO – Ningbo Gongfang Commercial Management (Representation of two separate stripes that merge into one)

(Case T-43/25)

(C/2025/1554)

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Puma SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany) (represented by: M. Schunke and P. Trieb, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Ningbo Gongfang Commercial Management Co. Ltd (Ningbo, China)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

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

Trade mark at issue: European Union figurative mark (Representation of two separate stripes that merge into one) – Application for registration No 18 766 236

Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 13 November 2024 in Case R 275/2024-4

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision; |

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| — | order EUIPO to pay the costs, including those incurred before the Board of Appeal. |

Plea in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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