Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 17.2.2020 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 54/59 |

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Action brought on 17 December 2019 – Tehrani v EUIPO – Blue Genes (Earnest Sewn)

(Case T-853/19)

(2020/C 54/64)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Reza Hossein Khan Tehrani (Nordhorn, Germany) (represented by: D. Wiedemann, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Blue Genes, Inc. (Gardena, California, United States)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court

Trade mark at issue: European Union word mark Earnest Sewn – European Union trade mark No 12 302 071

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 October 2019 in Case R 531/2018-5

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision; |

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| — | annul the decision of the Cancellation Division of 30 January 2019 in Case No 12618 C concerning the application for a declaration of invalidity against European Union trade mark No 12 302 071‘Earnest Sewn’; |

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| — | order that European Union trade mark No 12 302 071‘Earnest Sewn’ remain registered; |

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| — | order EUIPO to pay the costs of the proceedings. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 59(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 60(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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