Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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| 31.10.2022 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 418/47 |

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Action brought on 1 September 2022 — Hästens Sängar v EUIPO — Mustang (Checked pattern in beige with white horses)

(Case T-545/22)

(2022/C 418/60)

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Hästens Sängar AB (Köping, Sweden) (represented by: M. Johansson, R. Wessman and S. Ljungblad, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Mustang — Bekleidungswerke GmbH & Co. KG (Schwäbisch Hall, 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 pattern mark representing a checked pattern in beige with white horses — European Union trade mark No 18 180 223

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 27 June 2022 in Case R 1732/2021-5

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision in so far as it annuls the decision of the Cancellation Division based on the conclusion in paragraph 39 of the contested decision that ‘[o]verall the signs [of the proprietor and the cancellation applicant] are similar’; |

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| — | order EUIPO to pay the costs incurred by the proprietor. |

Plea in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. |

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