Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 26.9.2022 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 368/30 |

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Action brought on 8 August 2022 — Cyprian Iwuć v EUIPO — Hangzhou XiangHui (Packaging boxes, Socks (Set of -))

(Case T-492/22)

(2022/C 368/50)

Language in which the application was lodged: Polish

Parties

Applicant: Cyprian Iwuć (Sliema, Malta) (represented by: T. Kos, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Hangzhou XiangHui International Trading Co., Ltd. (Hangzhou, China)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietor of the design at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal

Design at issue: Community design ‘Packaging boxes, Socks (Set of -)’ — Community design No 8 043 228-0001

Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 20 May 2022 in Case R 1672/2021-3

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision and, accordingly, declare the contested design invalid; in the alternative, if the contested design is not deemed to lack novelty as a whole, limit, on the basis of Article 25(6) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, the registration of the contested design to the cardboard box; |

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| — | order EUIPO and the other party to the proceedings before EUIPO to pay the costs of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal; order EUIPO to pay all the costs of the present proceedings. |

Plea in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 5(1)(b) and Article 7(1), in conjunction with Article 63, of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on Community Designs, read in conjunction with Article 28(1)(b) and (v) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2245/2002 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002. |

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