CELEX: 62020TN0491
Language: en
Date: 2020-07-23 00:00:00
Title: Case T-491/20: Action brought on 23 July 2020 — El Corte Inglés v EUIPO — Ou (-Vpro)

21.9.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 313/32
            
         
      Action brought on 23 July 2020 — El Corte Inglés v EUIPO — Ou (-Vpro)
      (Case T-491/20)
      (2020/C 313/46)
      Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: El Corte Inglés, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J.L. Rivas Zurdo, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Kuei-Chin Ou (Taipei, Taiwan)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Applicant for the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for the EU figurative mark –Vpro — Application for registration No 17 741 133
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 30 April 2020 in Case R 1758/2019-1
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the General Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision, in so far as, by dismissing the appeal brought by the opponent, it upholds the decision of the Opposition Division in opposition proceedings B 3 055 001, granting EU trade mark No 17 741 133 -Vpro (figurative), to distinguish goods in Classes 24 and 25;
               
            
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                  order any party or parties opposing this action to pay the costs.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.