CELEX: 62021TN0502
Language: en
Date: 2021-08-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-502/21: Action brought on 16 August 2021 — Philip Morris Products v EUIPO (Device of a combination of lines in black and white forming a square)

27.9.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 391/29
            
         
      Action brought on 16 August 2021 — Philip Morris Products v EUIPO (Device of a combination of lines in black and white forming a square)
      (Case T-502/21)
      (2021/C 391/40)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Philip Morris Products SA (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) (represented by: L. Alonso Domingo, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union figurative mark (Device of a combination of lines in black and white forming a square) — Application for registration No 18 252 146
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 26 May 2021 in Case R 78/2021-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO to bear its own costs and to pay those of the applicant.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council by erroneously assessing the perception of the relevant consumers;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council with respect to the trademark at issue.