CELEX: 62020TN0002
Language: en
Date: 2020-01-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-2/20: Action brought on 3 January 2020 – Laboratorios Ern v EUIPO – Bio-tec Biologische Naturverpackungen (BIOPLAST BIOPLASTICS FOR A BETTER LIFE)

2.3.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 68/55
            
         
      Action brought on 3 January 2020 – Laboratorios Ern v EUIPO – Bio-tec Biologische Naturverpackungen (BIOPLAST BIOPLASTICS FOR A BETTER LIFE)
      (Case T-2/20)
      (2020/C 68/63)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Laboratorios Ern, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: S. Correa Rodríguez, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Bio-tec Biologische Naturverpackungen GmbH & Co. KG (Emmerich, 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: International registration designating the European Union in respect of the figurative mark BIOPLAST BIOPLASTICS FOR A BETTER LIFE – International registration designating the European Union No 1 202 538
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 10 October 2019 in Case R 418/2019-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  revoke the contested decision;
               
            
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                  order the defendant and, in case Bio-tec Biologische Naturverpackungen GmbH & Co. KG decides to intervene in the present proccedings, Bio-tec Biologische Naturverpackungen GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.