CELEX: 62018TN0573
Language: en
Date: 2018-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-573/18: Action brought on 25 September 2018 — Hickies v EUIPO (Shape of a shoe lace)

12.11.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 408/62
            
         
      Action brought on 25 September 2018 — Hickies v EUIPO (Shape of a shoe lace)
      (Case T-573/18)
      (2018/C 408/80)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Hickies, Inc. (New York, New York, United States) (represented by: I. Fowler, Solicitor and J. Schmitt, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union three-dimensional mark (Shape of a shoe lace) — Application for registration No 16 952 962
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 28 June 2018 in Case R 2693/2017-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision insofar as it dismissed the applicant’s appeal in relation to ‘shoe laces; shoe ornaments made of plastic; shoe trimmings; accessories for apparel, sewing articles and decorative textile articles; shoe buckles; shoe fasteners’;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO to pay the costs.
               
            
         Plea 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.