CELEX: 62021TN0752
Language: en
Date: 2021-11-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-752/21: Action brought on 29 November 2021 — Associação do Socorro e Amparo v EUIPO — De Bragança (quis ut Deus)

24.1.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 37/53
            
         
      Action brought on 29 November 2021 — Associação do Socorro e Amparo v EUIPO — De Bragança (quis ut Deus)
      (Case T-752/21)
      (2022/C 37/70)
      Language in which the application was lodged: Portuguese
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Associação do Socorro e Amparo (Lisbon, Portugal) (represented by: J. Motta Veiga, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Duarte Pio De Bragança (Sintra, Portugal)
      
         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 figurative mark quis ut Deus — European Union trade mark No 9 131 566
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Proceedings for a declaration of invalidity
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 21 October 2021 in Case R 581/2021-4
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the General Court should:
      
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                  uphold the present action and replace the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal with a decision declaring European Union trade mark No 9 131 566 invalid in respect of all goods and services protected by the mark on the basis of Article 58(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council, on the grounds that the mark has not been put to genuine use for a continuous period of five years;
               
            
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                  order the defendant to pay the costs and other expenses incurred in the proceedings, including lawyers’ fees the amount of which is to be determined subsequently.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      Infringement of Article 58(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.