CELEX: 62016TN0651
Language: en
Date: 2016-09-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-651/16: Action brought on 14 September 2016 — Crocs v EUIPO — Gifi Diffusion (Footwear)

7.11.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 410/23
            
         Action brought on 14 September 2016 — Crocs v EUIPO — Gifi Diffusion (Footwear)
   (Case T-651/16)
   (2016/C 410/33)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Crocs, Inc. (Niwot, Colorado, United States) (represented by: J. Guise, D. Knight, L. Cassidy, H. Seymour, Solicitors, M. Berger, N. Hadjadj Cazier, H. Haouideg, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Gifi Diffusion (Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Proprietor of the design at issue: Applicant
   
      Design at issue: Community design ‘Footwear’ — Community design No 257 001-0001
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 06/06/2016 in Case R 853/2014-3
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the contested decision and find that the website disclosures did not constitute a prior disclosure within the meaning of Article 7; upheld the contested registered Community design and dismiss the application for a declaration of invalidity;
            
         
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               make an award of costs in its favour.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 63(1) of Regulation No 6/2002;
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 7 of Regulation No 6/2002.