Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| European flag | Official Journal  of the European Union | EN  Series C |

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|  | C/2024/1711 | 4.3.2024 |

Action brought on 22 January 2024 — OMV v EUIPO (Combination of the colours blue and green)

(Case T-38/24)

(C/2024/1711)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) (represented by: C. Schumacher and B. Kapeller-Hirsch, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Trade mark at issue: International registration designating the European Union in respect of the colour mark (Combination of the colours blue and green) — Application for registration No 1 593 116

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 8 November 2023 in Case R 798/2023-5

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 Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council; |

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| — | Lack of adequate reasoning; |

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| — | Infringement of the general principles of legal certainty, equal treatment and sound administration. |

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