CELEX: 62019TN0853
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-853/19: Action brought on 17 December 2019 – Tehrani v EUIPO – Blue Genes (Earnest Sewn)

17.2.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 54/59
            
         
      Action brought on 17 December 2019 – Tehrani v EUIPO – Blue Genes (Earnest Sewn)
      (Case T-853/19)
      (2020/C 54/64)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Reza Hossein Khan Tehrani (Nordhorn, Germany) (represented by: D. Wiedemann, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Blue Genes, Inc. (Gardena, California, United States)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court
      
         Trade mark at issue: European Union word mark Earnest Sewn – European Union trade mark No 12 302 071
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 October 2019 in Case R 531/2018-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  annul the decision of the Cancellation Division of 30 January 2019 in Case No 12618 C concerning the application for a declaration of invalidity against European Union trade mark No 12 302 071‘Earnest Sewn’;
               
            
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                  order that European Union trade mark No 12 302 071‘Earnest Sewn’ remain registered;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO to pay the costs of the proceedings.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 59(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 60(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.