CELEX: 62018TN0043
Language: en
Date: 2018-01-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-43/18: Action brought on 24 January 2018 — Rietze v EUIPO — Volkswagen (Voitures)

19.3.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 104/50
            
         Action brought on 24 January 2018 — Rietze v EUIPO — Volkswagen (Voitures)
   (Case T-43/18)
   (2018/C 104/64)
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Rietze GmbH & Co. KG (Altdorf, Germany) (represented by: M. Krogmann, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Proprietor of the design at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Design at issue: European Union design No 5467-0001
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 21 November 2017 in Case R 1204/2016-3
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO and declare EU design No 5467-0001 invalid;
            
         
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               order EUIPO to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 4(1), in conjunction with Article 6(1)(b), of Regulation No 6/2002.