Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 6.5.2019 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 155/56 |

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Action brought on 19 March 2019 — Style & Taste v EUIPO — The Polo/Lauren Company (Representation of a polo player)

(Case T-169/19)

(2019/C 155/66)

Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Style & Taste, SL (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: L. Plaza Fernández-Villa, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: The Polo/Lauren Company LP (New York, New York, United States)

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: Figurative mark (Representation of a polo player) — European Union trade mark No 4 049 201

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of

7 January 2019 in Case R 1272/2018-5

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the General Court should declare that Community trade mark No 4 049 201 was preceded by industrial design 24087 and, consequently, declare that EU trade mark No 4 049 201, the property of PRL, lacks distinctiveness as laid down in the applicable rules and, consequently, annul that EU trade mark.

Pleas in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 53(2) of Council Regulation (EU) No 207/2009. |

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| — | Infringement of national legislation on legal protection of an industrial design, and of the Intellectual Property Act. |

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