Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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|  | C/2024/3627 | 17.6.2024 |

Action brought on 26 April 2024 – SMT v EUIPO – Pies and Rixen (Building materials)

(Case T-220/24)

(C/2024/3627)

Language in which the application was lodged: German

Parties

Applicant: SMT GmbH (Reutlingen, Germany) (represented by: T. Seifried, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Gerrit Pies (Solingen, Germany), Wolfgang Rixen (Solingen)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietors of the design at issue: Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal

Design at issue: Community design ‘Building materials’ – Community design No 222 070-0006

Proceedings before EUIPO: Invalidity proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 5 March 2024 in Case R 2163/2022-3

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 in the proceedings before the Board of Appeal. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Infringement of the first sentence of Article 62 of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 63(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 25(1)(b), in conjunction with Article 4(1) and Article 6(1)(b), of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 25(1)(b), in conjunction with Article 8(1), of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 25(1)(b), in conjunction with Article 8(2), of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 25(1)(b), in conjunction with Article 4(2) and Article 6(1)(b), of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002. |

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