CELEX: 62021TN0535
Language: en
Date: 2021-08-31 00:00:00
Title: Case T-535/21: Action brought on 31 August 2021 — Tinnus Enterprises v EUIPO — Mystic Products (Fluid distribution equipment)

25.10.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 431/48
            
         
      Action brought on 31 August 2021 — Tinnus Enterprises v EUIPO — Mystic Products (Fluid distribution equipment)
      (Case T-535/21)
      (2021/C 431/56)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Tinnus Enterprises LLC (Plano, Texas, United States) (represented by: T. Wuttke, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Mystic Products Import & Export, SL (Badalona, Spain)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the design at issue: Applicant before the General Court
      
         Design at issue: Community design No 1 431 829-0009
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 16 June 2021 in Case R 1004/2018-3
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  alter the contested decision to:
                  
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                              allow the applicant’s appeal,
                           
                        
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                              dismiss in its entirety the invalidity applicant’s application ICD 10 297 to declare the contested design invalid,
                           
                        
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                              order the invalidity applicant to pay the applicant’s costs in front of the Board of Appeal and the Invalidity Division;
                           
                        
            
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                  order the invalidity applicant to pay the applicant’s fees and costs.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of the principles set forth in the judgment of 24 March 2021, Lego v EUIPO — Delta Sport Handelskontor (Building block from a toy building set) (T-515/19, not published, EU:T:2021:155);
               
            
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                  Infringement of the principles set forth in the judgment of 8 March 2018, DOCERAM (C-395/16, EU:C:2018:172);
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002;
               
            
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                  Misinterpretation of patent application EP 3 005 948 A2 and the applicant’s multiple design application No. 1 431 829-0001-0010.