Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 4.9.2023 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 314/17 |

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Action brought on 14 July 2023 — Bodegas Aguiuncho v EUIPO — Mar de Frades (ALBARIÑO mar de ons)

(Case T-398/23)

(2023/C 314/21)

Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Bodegas Aguiuncho, SL (Sanxenxo, Spain) (represented by: J.M. Diez Roig, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Mar de Frades, SL (Cartagena, Spain)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Applicant for the trade mark at issue: Applicant

Trade mark at issue: EU figurative mark ALBARIÑO mar de ons — Application for registration No 18 408 426

Proceedings before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 May 2023 in Case R 0164/2023-1

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul and vary the contested decision; |

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| — | grant the application for registration of the trade mark at issue in Class 33 of the Nice Classification, with the effects inherent in such a declaration. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Interest in preserving availability. |

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| — | Peaceful coexistence of marks. |

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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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| — | Failure to comply with the judgment of 24 June 2014, Rani Refreshments v OHIM — Global-Invest Bartosz Turek (Sani), T-523/12, not published, EU:T:2014:571. |

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| — | Distinctiveness of the graphic representation. |

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