CELEX: 62020TN0331
Language: en
Date: 2020-05-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-331/20: Action brought on 29 May 2020 — Laboratorios Ern v EUIPO — Le-Vel Brands (Le-Vel)

27.7.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 247/42
            
         
      Action brought on 29 May 2020 — Laboratorios Ern v EUIPO — Le-Vel Brands (Le-Vel)
      (Case T-331/20)
      (2020/C 247/58)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Laboratorios Ern, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: S. Correa Rodríguez, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Le-Vel Brands LLC (Frisco, Texas, United States)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union word mark Le-Vel — Application for registration No 15 229 974
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 20 March 2020 in Case R 2113/2019-4
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  reject the European Union trade mark application ‘Le-vel’, No 15 229 974, for all goods and services in class 3 and 35;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO and the intervener (in case Le-Vel Brands, LLC. decides to intervene in the present proceedings) to pay the costs.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.