CELEX: 62019TN0839
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-839/19: Action brought on 10 December 2019 – Koopman International v EUIPO – Tinnus Enterprises et Mystic Products Import & Export (Fluid distribution equipement)

10.2.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 45/89
            
         
      Action brought on 10 December 2019 – Koopman International v EUIPO – Tinnus Enterprises et Mystic Products Import & Export (Fluid distribution equipement)
      (Case T-839/19)
      (2020/C 45/75)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Koopman International BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: B. van Werven, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Tinnus Enterprises LLC (Plano, Texas, United States) and Mystic Products Import & Export, SL (Badalona, Spain)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the design at issue: Tinnus Enterprises
      
         Design at issue: European Union design No 1431 829-0002
      
         Contested decision: Interim Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 September 2019 in Case R 1006/2018-3
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision to suspend the appeal proceedings before the Board of Appeal and decide that said proceedings before the Board of Appeal shall continue;
               
            
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                  to join the current case before the General Court with the cases before the General Court in cases R 1008/2018-3, R 1005/2018-3, R 1010/2018-3 and R 1009/2018-3 lodged by Koopman International simultaneous with this action;
               
            
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                  order Tinnus Enterprises to pay Koopman International’s costs and fees.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  The Board of Appeal failed to correctly assess and apply the criterion of ‘legal certainty’;
               
            
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                  The Board of Appeal failed to correctly assess and apply the criterion of ‘economy of proceedings’;
               
            
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                  The Board of Appeal failed to correctly assess and apply the criterion of ‘sound administration’;
               
            
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                  The Board of Appeal did not correctly balance the interests of all parties.