CELEX: 62021TN0735
Language: en
Date: 2021-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-735/21: Action brought on 17 November 2021 — Aprile and Commerciale Italiana v EUIPO — DC Comics partnership (Device of a stylized depiction of a black bat inside a white oval frame)

24.1.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 37/46
            
         
      Action brought on 17 November 2021 — Aprile and Commerciale Italiana v EUIPO — DC Comics partnership (Device of a stylized depiction of a black bat inside a white oval frame)
      (Case T-735/21)
      (2022/C 37/60)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Luigi Aprile (San Giuseppe Vesuviano, Italy), Commerciale Italiana Srl (Nola, Italy) (represented by: C. Saettel, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: DC Comics partnership (Burbank, California, United States)
      
         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 figurative mark (Device of a stylised depiction of a black bat inside a white oval frame) — European Union trade mark No 38 158
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 6 September 2021 in Case R 1447/2020-2
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  find the application admissible;
               
            
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO and the intervener to pay the costs in accordance with Article 134(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 95(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 94(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 59(1)(a) read in conjunction with Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 59(1)(a) read in conjunction with Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.