CELEX: 62016TN0424
Language: en
Date: 2016-08-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-424/16: Action brought on 5 August 2016 — Gifi Diffusion v EUIPO — Crocs (Footwear)

24.10.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 392/41
            
         Action brought on 5 August 2016 — Gifi Diffusion v EUIPO — Crocs (Footwear)
   (Case T-424/16)
   (2016/C 392/54)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Gifi Diffusion (Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France) (represented by: C. de Chassey, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Crocs, Inc. (Longmont, Colorado, United States)
   
      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: Community design ‘Footwear’ — Community design No 733 282-0001
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 25 April 2015 in Case R 37/2015-3
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the contested decision;
            
         
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               invalidate the Community design No 000733282-0001;
            
         
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               order EUIPO to pay the costs of the Applicant.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 6 of Regulation No 6/2002;
            
         
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               Infringement of Articles 62 and 63 of Regulation No 6/2002.