CELEX: 62021TN0596
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-596/21: Action brought on 17 September 2021 — Société Elmar Wolf v EUIPO — Fuxtec (Representation of a fox’s head)

15.11.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 462/55
            
         
      Action brought on 17 September 2021 — Société Elmar Wolf v EUIPO — Fuxtec (Representation of a fox’s head)
      (Case T-596/21)
      (2021/C 462/67)
      Language in which the application was lodged: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Société Elmar Wolf (Wissembourg, France) (represented by: N. Boespflug, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Fuxtec GmbH (Herrenberg, Germany)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
      
         Trade mark at issue: International registration designating the European Union in respect of a figurative mark (Representation of a fox’s head) — International registration designating the European Union No 1 339 239
      
         Proceedings before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 5 July 2021 in Case R 2834/2019-4
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision in so far as it states that the mark applied for is similar to the earlier mark;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO to pay the costs;
               
            
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                  order the company Fuxtec GmbH to pay the costs occasioned by its intervention, if such intervention has taken place.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.