CELEX: 62017TN0419
Language: en
Date: 2017-07-04 00:00:00
Title: Case T-419/17: Action brought on 4 July 2017 — Mendes v EUIPO — Actial Farmaceutica (VSL#3)

21.8.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 277/55
            
         Action brought on 4 July 2017 — Mendes v EUIPO — Actial Farmaceutica (VSL#3)
   (Case T-419/17)
   (2017/C 277/80)
   Language in which the application was lodged: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Mendes SA (Lugano, Switzerland) (represented by: G. Carpineti, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Actial Farmaceutica Srl (Rome, Italy)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Trade mark at issue: European Union word mark ‘VSL#3’ — European Union trade mark No 1 437 789
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Revocation proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 3 May 2017 in Case R 1306/2016-2
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               primarily, annul the contested decision of the Board of Appeal of EUIPO in accordance with and for the purposes of Article 51(1)(b) EUTMR;
            
         
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               in the alternative, annul the contested decision of the Board of Appeal of EUIPO in accordance with and for the purposes of Article 51(1)(c) EUTMR;
            
         
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               in any event, order that the applicant should be reimbursed in full for the costs of the proceedings, or at least that each party should bear its own costs in full.
            
         
      Plea in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 51(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation No 207/2009.