Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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|  | C/2025/5086 | 29.9.2025 |

Action brought on 25 July 2025 – Thom Browne v EUIPO – adidas

(Device of three parallel stripes applied to a garment)

(Case T-502/25)

(C/2025/5086)

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Thom Browne, Inc. (New York, New York, United States) (represented by: T. van Innis, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

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

Trade mark at issue: European Union figurative mark (Device of three parallel stripes applied to a garment) – European Union trade mark No 3 517 612

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 May 2025 in Case R 1240/2024-2

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. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Infringement of the right to good administration, including transparency, and the right to be heard; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark. |

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