CELEX: 62017TN0276
Language: en
Date: 2017-05-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-276/17: Action brought on 8 May 2017 — Ogrodnik v EUIPO — Aviario Tropical (Tropical)

3.7.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 213/35
            
         Action brought on 8 May 2017 — Ogrodnik v EUIPO — Aviario Tropical (Tropical)
   (Case T-276/17)
   (2017/C 213/48)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Tadeusz Ogrodnik (Chorzów, Poland) (represented by: A. von Mühlendahl, H. Hartwig, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Aviario Tropical, SA (Loures, Portugal)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant
   
      Trade mark at issue: EU figurative mark containing the word element ‘Tropical’ — EU trade mark No 3 435 773
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Proceedings for a declaration of invalidity
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 February 2017 in Case R 2125/2016-1
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the contested decision;
            
         
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               dismiss the appeal brought by Aviário Tropical, SA, against the decision of the Defendant’s Cancellation Division of 15 July 2013 in Case 6029 C;
            
         
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               order EUIPO and Aviário Tropical, SA, if it should intervene in these proceedings, to pay the costs.
            
         
      Plea in law
   
   
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               Infringement of article 53(1)(a) of Regulation No 207/2009 in conjunction with Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009.