Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 3.8.2020 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 255/31 |

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Action brought on 11 June 2020 — Birkenstock Sales v EUIPO (Form of a pattern of a sole of a shoe)

(Case T-365/20)

(2020/C 255/40)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Birkenstock Sales GmbH (Linz am Rhein, Germany) (represented by: C. Menebröcker und K. Middelhoff, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Trade mark at issue: Application for an EU position mark (Form of a pattern of a sole of a shoe) — Application for registration No 14 576 284

Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 19 March 2020 in Case R 1706/2019-1

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. |

Plea in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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