CELEX: 62019TN0343
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-343/19: Action brought on 7 June 2019 — Conlance v EUIPO — LG Electronics (SONANCE)

22.7.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 246/48
            
         
      Action brought on 7 June 2019 — Conlance v EUIPO — LG Electronics (SONANCE)
      (Case T-343/19)
      (2019/C 246/48)
      Language in which the application was lodged: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Conlance GmbH (Augsburg, Germany) (represented by: A. Hayn, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: LG Electronics, Inc. (Seoul, South Korea)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Applicant: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for EU word mark SONANCE — Application for registration No 14 589 907
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 5 April 2019 in Case R 1085/2018-1
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  annul the decision of the Opposition Division of EUIPO of 15 May 2018 in Case No B 2 660 572‘Conlance GmbH v LG ELECTRONICS INC.’;
               
            
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                  uphold Opposition Case No B 2 660 572‘Conlance GmbH v LG ELECTRONICS INC.’ for all the contested goods;
               
            
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                  reject the EU trade mark application ‘SONANCE’, No UM 14 589 907;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO to pay the costs of the proceedings, including those incurred in the appeal proceedings.
               
            In the event that another party is intervening in support of the defendant:
      
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                  order the other party to pay the costs of the proceedings, including those incurred in the appeal proceedings.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.