CELEX: 62016TN0044
Language: en
Date: 2016-01-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-44/16: Action brought on 26 January 2016 — Novartis v EUIPO — SK Chemicals (Representation of a patch)

29.3.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 111/32
            
         Action brought on 26 January 2016 — Novartis v EUIPO — SK Chemicals (Representation of a patch)
   (Case T-44/16)
   (2016/C 111/38)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Novartis AG (Basel, Suisse) (represented by: M. Douglas, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: SK Chemicals GmbH (Eschborn, Germany)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant
   
      Trade mark at issue: EU figurative mark (Representation of a patch) — EU trade mark registration No 11 293 362
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 27 November 2015 in Case R 2342/2014-5
   
      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.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article7(1)(e)(ii) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 80(2) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Infringement of the principle of fair trial by the Board of Appeal of EUIPO.