CELEX: 62021TN0169
Language: en
Date: 2021-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-169/21: Action brought on 26 March 2021 — The Smiley Company v EUIPO — SC Ha Ha Ha Production (SMILEY)

7.6.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/46
            
         
      Action brought on 26 March 2021 — The Smiley Company v EUIPO — SC Ha Ha Ha Production (SMILEY)
      (Case T-169/21)
      (2021/C 217/62)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: The Smiley Company SPRL (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: B. Fontaine, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: SC Ha Ha Ha Production SRL (Calinesti, Romania)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union word mark SMILEY — Application for registration No 17 569 641
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 15 January 2021 in Case R 2936/2019-5
      
         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 pay the costs.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 94(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 47(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 10(3) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council .