CELEX: 62016TN0629
Language: en
Date: 2016-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Case T-629/16: Action brought on 1 September 2016 — Shoe Branding Europe v EUIPO — adidas (Device of two parallel stripes on a shoe)

31.10.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 402/53
            
         Action brought on 1 September 2016 — Shoe Branding Europe v EUIPO — adidas (Device of two parallel stripes on a shoe)
   (Case T-629/16)
   (2016/C 402/62)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Shoe Branding Europe BVBA (Oudenaarde, Belgium) (represented by: J. Løje, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: adidas (Herzogenaurach, Germany)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Applicant
   
      Trade mark at issue: position mark (Device of two parallel stripes on a shoe) — EU trade mark No 8 398 141
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 8 June 2016 in Case R 597/2016-2
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the contested decision;
            
         
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               order EUIPO to pay the costs.
            
         
      Plea in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 8(5) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Distortion of facts.