CELEX: 62018TN0575
Language: en
Date: 2018-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-575/18: Action brought on 25 September 2018 — Shore Capital International v EUIPO — Circle Imperium (The Inner Circle)

26.11.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 427/93
            
         
      Action brought on 25 September 2018 — Shore Capital International v EUIPO — Circle Imperium (The Inner Circle)
      (Case T-575/18)
      (2018/C 427/123)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Shore Capital International Ltd (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: O. Spieker, A. Schönfleisch and N. Willich, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Circle Imperium BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
      
         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 the mark The Inner Circle — International registration designating the European Union No 1 266 666
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 7 June 2018 in Case R 1402/2017-1
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision, insofar as it dismisses the appeal of the applicant against the decision of the defendant's Opposition Division dated 26 April 2017, and thus upholds the IR holder's application for protection of the international trademark ‘The Inner Circle’ (No. 1 266 666) in the European Union for class 41;
               
            
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                  order the IR holder and the defendant to bear the costs of the proceedings including the costs necessarily incurred by the applicant before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.