Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 13.5.2019 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 164/60 |

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Action brought on 26 March 2019 — Bibita Group v EUIPO — Benkomers (Beverage bottles)

(Case T-180/19)

(2019/C 164/63)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Bibita Group SHPK (Tirana, Albania) (represented by: C. Seyfert, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Benkomers OOD (Sofia, Bulgaria)

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 No 3797 091-0001 (Beverage bottles)

Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 January 2019 in Case R 1070/2018-3

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision; |

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| — | declare the contested Community design registered under No 3797 091-0001 invalid, on all the grounds set in the application; |

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| — | order the defendant and the proprietor to pay the procedural costs relating to the proceedings before the Third Board of Appeal, pursuant to Article 190 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court; |

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| — | order EUIPO and the potential other party to the present proceedings to pay the entirety of the costs of the proceedings. |

Plea in law

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| — | Infringement of Articles 6(1) and 25(1)(d) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002. |

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