CELEX: 62017TN0287
Language: en
Date: 2017-05-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-287/17: Action brought on 8 May 2017 — Swemac Innovation v EUIPO — Swemac Medical Appliances (SWEMAC)

3.7.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 213/38
            
         Action brought on 8 May 2017 — Swemac Innovation v EUIPO — Swemac Medical Appliances (SWEMAC)
   (Case T-287/17)
   (2017/C 213/52)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Swemac Innovation AB (Linköping, Sweden) (represented by: G. Nygren, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Swemac Medical Appliances AB (Linköping, Sweden)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant
   
      Trade mark at issue: EU word mark ‘SWEMAC’ — EU trade mark No 6 326 177
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 24 February 2017 in Case R 3000/2014-5
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the contested decision and reinstate the EUTM number 006326177 to full validity, including goods and services in classes 10: ‘Surgical and medical apparatus and instruments’ and 42 ‘Research and development services relating to surgical and medical apparatus and instruments’;
            
         
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               order the other party to pay the costs of the Applicant before EUIPO and the Boards of Appeal, EUR 1 000; and
            
         
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               order EUIPO and the other party to pay the costs of the Applicant before the General Court.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 53(1)(c) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 8 of Regulation No 207/2009.