CELEX: 62021TN0364
Language: en
Date: 2021-06-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-364/21: Action brought on 25 June 2021 — Essity Hygiene and Health v EUIPO (Representation of a leaf)

9.8.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 320/54
            
         
      Action brought on 25 June 2021 — Essity Hygiene and Health v EUIPO (Representation of a leaf)
      (Case T-364/21)
      (2021/C 320/60)
      Language of the case: Swedish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Essity Hygiene and Health AB (Gothenburg, Sweden) (represented by: U. Wennermark, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for registration of EU figurative mark representing a leaf — Application for registration No 16 709 305
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 31 March 2021 in Case R 2196/2017-1
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims, primarily, that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision in so far as it refuses the application;
               
            
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                  vary the contested decision by granting the appeal against the examiner’s decision not to grant the application in respect of the goods in Class 16; and
               
            
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                  order EUIPO to pay the applicant’s costs incurred in the proceedings before both the General Court and EUIPO.
               
            The applicant claims, in the alternative, that the Court should:
      
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                  order EUIPO to pay the applicant’s costs incurred before the General Court.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 165(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 and Article 36(1)(g) and 36(2) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625.