CELEX: 62016TN0426
Language: en
Date: 2016-08-02 00:00:00
Title: Case T-426/16: Action brought on 2 August 2016 — Perfumes y Aromas Artesanales v EUIPO — Aromas Selective (Aa AROMAS artesanales)

3.10.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 364/21
            
         
      Action brought on 2 August 2016 — Perfumes y Aromas Artesanales v EUIPO — Aromas Selective (Aa AROMAS artesanales)
      (Case T-426/16)
      (2016/C 364/21)
      Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Perfumes y Aromas Artesanales, SL (Arganda del Rey, Spain) (represented by: J. Botella Reyna, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Aromas Selective, SL (Dos Hermanas, Spain)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Applicant: Applicant
      
         Trade mark at issue: EU figurative mark containing the word elements ‘Aa AROMAS artesanales’– Application for registration No 12 215 018
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 20 May 2016 in Case R 766/2015-5
      
         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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                  Existence of priority rights and peaceful co-existence on the market and in the registration of the allegedly conflicting marks.
               
            
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                  Weak distinctive character of the term ‘AROMAS’.
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009.