CELEX: 62021TN0275
Language: en
Date: 2021-05-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-275/21: Action brought on 20 May 2021 — Louis Vuitton Malletier v EUIPO — Wisniewski (Representation of a chequerboard pattern)

5.7.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 263/36
            
         
      Action brought on 20 May 2021 — Louis Vuitton Malletier v EUIPO — Wisniewski (Representation of a chequerboard pattern)
      (Case T-275/21)
      (2021/C 263/46)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Louis Vuitton Malletier (Paris, France) (represented by: P. Roncaglia, N. Parrotta and P.-Y. Gautier, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Norbert Wisniewski (Warsaw, Poland)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court
      
         Trade mark at issue: International registration designating the European Union in respect of the figurative mark representing a chequerboard pattern — International registration designating the European Union No 986 207
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 25 February 2021 in Case R 1307/2020-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  alter the contested decision, by holding that the applicant has established acquired distinctiveness through use;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO to pay the costs incurred by the applicant during these proceedings;
               
            
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                  order Mr. Norbert Wisniewski to pay the costs incurred by the applicant during these proceedings.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Articles 7(3) and 59(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.