CELEX: 62017TN0657
Language: en
Date: 2017-09-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-657/17: Action brought on 27 September 2017 — Anabi Blanga v EUIPO — Polo/Lauren (HPC POLO)

18.12.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 437/33
            
         Action brought on 27 September 2017 — Anabi Blanga v EUIPO — Polo/Lauren (HPC POLO)
   (Case T-657/17)
   (2017/C 437/40)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Gidon Anabi Blanga (Mexico, Mexico) (represented by: M. Sanmartín Sanmartín, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: The Polo/Lauren Company LP (New York, New York, United States)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Applicant
   
      Trade mark at issue: EU word mark ‘HPC POLO’ — Application for registration No 13 531 462
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 June 2017 in Case R 2368/2016-1
   
      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 bear its own costs and pay the costs of the applicant.
            
         
      Plea in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) Regulation No 207/2009.