Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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Action brought on 11 May 2024 – Alberts v EUIPO – Techtex (Cardboard boxes [packaging])

(Case T-245/24)

(C/2024/3920)

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Adina Alberts (Bucharest, Romania) (represented by: V. Roș and A. Livădariu, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Techtex SRL (Oșorhei, Romania)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

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

Design at issue: Community design Cardboard boxes [packaging] – Community design No 7 873 187-0001

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 11 March 2024 in Case R 1348/2023-3

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision; |

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| — | primarily, grant the application for a declaration that the design at issue is invalid; |

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| — | in the alternative, refer the case back to the Board of Appeal for reconsideration; |

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| — | order EUIPO and the intervener to bear their own costs and the costs incurred by the applicant before the General Court and before the Board of Appeal. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Infringement of essential procedural requirement and rules of law relating to the limits of the Board of Appeal when assessing the pleas; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 25(1)(e) of the Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002. |

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