CELEX: 62018TN0682
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-682/18: Action brought on 16 November 2018 — Twitter v EUIPO — Hachette Filipacchi Presse (PERISCOPE)

21.1.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 25/55
            
         
      Action brought on 16 November 2018 — Twitter v EUIPO — Hachette Filipacchi Presse (PERISCOPE)
      (Case T-682/18)
      (2019/C 25/72)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Twitter, Inc. (San Francisco, California, United States) (represented by: I. Fowler, Solicitor and J. Schmitt, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Hachette Filipacchi Presse SA (Levallois Perret, France)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union word mark PERISCOPE — Application for registration No 13 837 794
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 3 September 2018 in Case R 2315/2016-4
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision in so far as it held that (a) the earlier French mark no. 3 366 460 had been genuinely used for ‘software and computer programs’ in class 9, and (b) that there is a likelihood of confusion between the marks at issue for goods and services in classes 9, 41, 42 and 45;
               
            
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                  order that the costs of the proceedings be borne by the defendant and the other party before the Board of Appeal if it joins the proceedings as intervener.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 42(2) and (3) of the Council Regulation (EC) 207/2009;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of the Council Regulation (EC) 207/2009.