Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 31.5.2021 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 206/31 |

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Action brought on 25 March 2021 — Laboratorios Ern v EUIPO — Malpricht (APIRETAL)

(Case T-160/21)

(2021/C 206/39)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Laboratorios Ern, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: T. González Martínez, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Ingrid Malpricht (Ludwigshafen, Germany)

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 APIRETAL — European Union trade mark No 4 814 158

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 20 January 2021 in Case R 1004/2020-4

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | uphold the present appeal; |

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| — | revoke the defendant’s decision of 20 March 2020; |

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| — | annul the contested decision of 20 January 2021; |

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| — | revoke the cancellation for non-use the EUTM no. 4 814 158 ‘APERITAL’ in relation to contested goods in Class 5 while maintaining the registration of these goods (as well as to ‘pharmaceutical preparations’); |

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| — | order EUIPO and the other party to the appeal proceedings, should it intervene in these proceedings, to pay the costs. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Misinterpretation of Article 58(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council when examining the concept of genuine use of the contested mark of any of the contested goods; |

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| — | Misinterpretation of Article 58(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council when assessing the concept of the proper reason for non-use. |

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