CELEX: 62017TN0456
Language: en
Date: 2017-07-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-456/17: Action brought on 21 July 2017 — Lupu v EUIPO — Dzhihangir (Djili soy original DS)

18.9.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 309/35
            
         Action brought on 21 July 2017 — Lupu v EUIPO — Dzhihangir (Djili soy original DS)
   (Case T-456/17)
   (2017/C 309/46)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Victor Lupu (Bucharest, Romania) (represented by: P. Acsinte, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Ibryam Dzhihangir (Silistra, Bulgaria)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Applicant
   
      Trade mark at issue: EU figurative mark containing the word elements ‘Djili soy original DS’ — Application for registration No 8 810 558
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 03 May 2017 in Case R 516/2011-5
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the contested decision;
            
         
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               uphold the opposition against the registration of EUTMA 008404551 ‘Djili DS’ and/or to cancel the registration of EUTMA 008404551 ‘Djili DS’;
            
         
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               in subsidiary, annul the Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal dated 03/05/2017 concerning the appeal R 516/2011-5 and to order the resumption of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal and further to order the Board of Appeal to maintain the suspension of its proceedings until a written, motivated and signed final decision on the appeal for annulment, docket no. 2794/1/2016, is provided to the Board of Appeal;
            
         
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               order EUIPO and DZHIHANGIR Ibryam to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 1, 1st Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights;
            
         
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               Infringement of Rule 20(7)(a) and (c) of the Commission Regulation (EC) no.2868/95 of 13 December 1995 implementing Council Regulation (EC) no. 40/94 on the Community trade mark;
            
         
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                  Mutatis mutandis article 53(2)(c) and (d) of the Council Regulation (EC) no. 207/2009 in respect of the applicant’s copyright for the picture of the package ‘Djili’ written in red letters on a blue package with the figure of a parrot and in respect of the applicant’s rights to use a trade name for products in the sense of the Judgment of the European Court of Justice in the Case C-17/06 ‘Celine’;
            
         
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               Other relevant legal provision.