CELEX: 62016TN0828
Language: en
Date: 2016-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-828/16: Action brought on 25 November 2016 — CRDO Torta del Casar v EUIPO — CRDOP ‘Queso de La Serena’ (QUESO Y TORTA DE LA SERENA)

23.1.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/54
            
         Action brought on 25 November 2016 — CRDO Torta del Casar v EUIPO — CRDOP ‘Queso de La Serena’ (QUESO Y TORTA DE LA SERENA)
   (Case T-828/16)
   (2017/C 022/73)
   Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Torta del Casar (Casar de Cáceres, Spain) (represented by: A. Pomares Caballero and M. Pomares Caballero, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen Protegida ‘Queso de La Serena’ (Castuera, Spain)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Applicant: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Trade mark at issue: European Union figurative mark containing the word elements ‘QUESO Y TORTA DE LA SERENA’ — Application for registration No 10 486 447
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 26 September 2016 in Case R 2573/2014-4
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               vary the contested decision, finding that the conditions for applying the relative ground for refusal of registration in Article 8(4) of Regulation No 207/2009, in conjunction with Article 13(1) of Regulation No 510/2006, are met;
            
         
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               alternatively, annul the contested decision; and
            
         
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               in any event, order EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the applicant (including the costs relating to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal).
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 2(2) and Article 3(1) of Regulation No 510/2006, read in conjunction with Article 13(1) of the same regulation, and with reference, lastly, to Article 8(4) of Regulation No 207/2009.
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 13(1) of Regulation No 510/2006, with reference to Article 8(4) of Regulation No 207/2009.
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 75 of Regulation No 207/2009.
            
         
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               Infringement of the general principles of legal certainty and sound administration.