CELEX: 62020TN0365
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-365/20: Action brought on 11 June 2020 — Birkenstock Sales v EUIPO (Form of a pattern of a sole of a shoe)

3.8.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 255/31
            
         
      Action brought on 11 June 2020 — Birkenstock Sales v EUIPO (Form of a pattern of a sole of a shoe)
      (Case T-365/20)
      (2020/C 255/40)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Birkenstock Sales GmbH (Linz am Rhein, Germany) (represented by: C. Menebröcker und K. Middelhoff, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for an EU position mark (Form of a pattern of a sole of a shoe) — Application for registration No 14 576 284
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 19 March 2020 in Case R 1706/2019-1
      
         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 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.