CELEX: 62017TN0307
Language: en
Date: 2017-05-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-307/17: Action brought on 18 May 2017 — adidas v EUIPO — Shoe Branding Europe (Representation of three parallel stripes)

17.7.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 231/48
            
         Action brought on 18 May 2017 — adidas v EUIPO — Shoe Branding Europe (Representation of three parallel stripes)
   (Case T-307/17)
   (2017/C 231/61)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany) (represented by: I. Fowler and I. Junkar, Solicitors)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Shoe Branding Europe BVBA (Oudenaarde, Belgium)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant
   
      Trade mark at issue: EU figurative mark (Representation of three parallel stripes) — EU trade mark No 12 442 166
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Proceedings for a declaration of invalidity
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 7 March 2017 in Case R 1515/2016-2
   
      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 and the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal, if it joins as intervener, to pay the costs.
            
         
      Plea in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 52(2) read in conjunction with Article 7(3) of Regulation No 207/2009.