CELEX: 62020TN0199
Language: en
Date: 2020-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-199/20: Action brought on 14 April 2020 — Aldi Stores v EUIPO — Dualit (Shape of a toaster)

15.6.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 201/42
            
         
      Action brought on 14 April 2020 — Aldi Stores v EUIPO — Dualit (Shape of a toaster)
      (Case T-199/20)
      (2020/C 201/55)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Aldi Stores Ltd (Atherstone, United Kingdom) (represented by: S. Barker, Solicitor and C. Blythe, Barrister)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Dualit Ltd (Crawley, United Kingdom)
      
         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: European Union tridimensional mark (Shape of a toaster) — European Union trade mark No 48 728
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 February 2020 in Case R 1034/2019-4
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision and uphold the application for a declaration of invalidity pursuant to Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  alternatively, annul the contested decision and remit the case to the EUIPO, straight to the Cancellation Division or to the Boards of Appeal;
               
            
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                  in the further alternative, annul the contested decision and uphold the application for a declaration of invalidity pursuant to Articles 7(1)(a), (e)(ii) and/or (e)(iii) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  order the EUIPO to pay the costs incurred by the applicant in connection with this appeal.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of an essential procedural requirement, alternatively infringement of Article 27(2) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 7(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 7(1)(e)(iii) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.