CELEX: 62016TN0398
Language: en
Date: 2016-07-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-398/16: Action brought on 26 July 2016 — Starbucks v EUIPO — Nersesyan (COFFEE ROCKS)

12.9.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 335/50
            
         Action brought on 26 July 2016 — Starbucks v EUIPO — Nersesyan (COFFEE ROCKS)
   (Case T-398/16)
   (2016/C 335/66)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Starbucks Corp. (Seattle, Washington, United States) (represented by: I. Fowler, Solicitor and J. Schmitt, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Hasmik Nersesyan (Borgloon, Belgium)
   
      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: EU figurative mark containing the word elements ‘COFFEE ROCKS’ — Application for registration No 11 881 943
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 24 May 2016 in Case R 559/2015-4
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the decision given by the Office on 24 May 2016 in Case R 559/2015-4; and
            
         
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               order that the costs of the proceedings be borne by the defendant, or — in the event that the other party intervenes — that they be borne jointly by the defendant and the intervener.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 8(5) of Regulation No 207/2009.