CELEX: 62017TN0712
Language: en
Date: 2017-10-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-712/17: Action brought on 9 October 2017 — Ntolas v EUIPO — General Nutrition Investment (GN Laboratories)

18.12.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 437/40
            
         Action brought on 9 October 2017 — Ntolas v EUIPO — General Nutrition Investment (GN Laboratories)
   (Case T-712/17)
   (2017/C 437/47)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Christos Ntolas (Wuppertal, Germany) (represented by: C. Renger, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: General Nutrition Investment Co. (Delaware, Arizona, United States)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Applicant
   
      Trade mark at issue: EU word mark ‘GN Laboratories’ — Application for registration No 11 223 559
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 July 2017 in Case R 2358/2016-5
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
               —
            
            
               annul the contested decision;
            
         
               —
            
            
               reject the opposition brought against the application for the Community Trademark No 011223559;
            
         
               —
            
            
               order EUIPO to pay the costs.
            
         
      Plea in law
   
   
               —
            
            
               Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009.