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Language: en
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|  | C/2024/5246 | 2.9.2024 |

Action brought on 24 July 2024 – Verband der Islamischen Kulturzentren v EUIPO – Inaba Shokuhin (TUNA)

(Case T-377/24)

(C/2024/5246)

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Verband der Islamischen Kulturzentren eV (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: C. Sánchez Margareto and M. Pastor Palomares, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Inaba Shokuhin Co. Ltd (Shizuoka, Japan)

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 TUNA – European Union trade mark No 11 960 721

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 24 May 2024 in Case R 1651/2023-5

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 59(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 7(1)(g) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 63(3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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