CELEX: 62021TN0553
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-553/21: Action brought on 7 September 2021 — Agrarfrost v EUIPO — McCain (Shape of a smiley)

18.10.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 422/37
            
         
      Action brought on 7 September 2021 — Agrarfrost v EUIPO — McCain (Shape of a smiley)
      (Case T-553/21)
      (2021/C 422/49)
      Language in which the application was lodged: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Agrarfrost GmbH & Co. KG (Wildeshausen, Germany) (represented by: H. Förster and A. Ebert-Weidenfeller, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: McCain GmbH (Eschborn, Germany)
      
         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 three-dimensional mark (Shape of a smiley) –European Union trade mark No 1 801 166
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 28 June 2021 in Case R 1088/2020-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  order the defendant to pay the costs of the proceedings, including those incurred in the proceedings before the Cancellation Division and the Board of Appeal of the defendant.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 58(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 18(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 10(3) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625.