CELEX: 62015TN0167
Language: en
Date: 2015-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Case T-167/15: Action brought on 2 April 2015 — Bundesverband Souvenir — Geschenke — Ehrenpreise v OHIM — Freistaat Bayern (NEUSCHWANSTEIN)

1.6.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 178/23
            
         Action brought on 2 April 2015 — Bundesverband Souvenir — Geschenke — Ehrenpreise v OHIM — Freistaat Bayern (NEUSCHWANSTEIN)
   
   (Case T-167/15)
   (2015/C 178/23)
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Bundesverband Souvenir — Geschenke — Ehrenpreise e.V. (Veitsbronn, Deutschland) (represented by: B. Bittner, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Appeal Board: Freistaat Bayern (Munich, Germany)
   
      Details of the proceedings before OHIM
   
   
      Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Trade mark at issue: Community word mark ‘NEUSCHWANSTEIN’
   
      Procedure before OHIM: Proceedings for a declaration of invalidity
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of the OHIM of 22 January 2015 in Case R 28/2014-5
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the contested decision;
            
         
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               declare the sign ‘NEUSCHWANSTEIN’ — Community trade mark No 10 144 392 — invalid;
            
         
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               order OHIM to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 52(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009.