CELEX: 62018TN0340
Language: en
Date: 2018-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Case T-340/18: Action brought on 31 May 2018 — Gibson Brands v EUIPO — Wilfer (Shape of a guitar)

201806290621986522018/C 249/543402018TC24920180716EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL20180531444411Case T-340/18: Action brought on 31 May 2018 — Gibson Brands v EUIPO — Wilfer (Shape of a guitar)
 ---documentbreak--- C2492018EN4410120180531EN0054441441Action brought on 31 May 2018 — Gibson Brands v EUIPO — Wilfer
   (Shape of a guitar)
   (Case T-340/18)2018/C 249/54Language of the case: English
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Gibson Brands, Inc. (Nashville, Tennessee, United States) (represented by: K. Hughes, Solicitor, A. Renck and C. Stöber, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Hans-Peter Wilfer (Markeneukirchen, Germany)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court
   
      Trade mark at issue: European Union tridimensional mark (Shape of a guitar) — European Union trade mark No 9 179 953
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 8 March 2018 in Case R 415/2017-2
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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            annul the contested decision;
         
      
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            order that the costs of the proceedings be borne by the Defendant and the Other Party before the Board of Appeal in the event that it intervenes in the proceedings.
         
      
      Pleas in law
   
   
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            Infringement of Article 52(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009;
         
      
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            Infringement of Article 52(2) in conjunction with Article 7(3) of Regulation No 207/2009.