CELEX: 62021TN0530
Language: en
Date: 2021-08-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-530/21: Action brought on 30 August 2021 — Pierre Lannier v EUIPO — Pierre Lang Trading (PL)

18.10.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 422/29
            
         
      Action brought on 30 August 2021 — Pierre Lannier v EUIPO — Pierre Lang Trading (PL)
      (Case T-530/21)
      (2021/C 422/38)
      Language in which the application was lodged: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Pierre Lannier (Ernolsheim-lès-Saverne, France) (represented by: N. Boespflug, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Pierre Lang Trading GmbH (Vienna, Austria)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Applicant for the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for EU figurative mark PL — Application for registration No 16 176 992
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 11 June 2021 in Case R 1915/2020-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  declare the appeal brought against the opposition decision to be inadmissible because the statement of grounds was not submitted within the time limit;
               
            
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                  annul the contested decision is so far as it states that the mark applied for is similar to the earlier mark;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO to pay the costs;
               
            
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                  order the company Pierre Lang GmbH to pay the costs occasioned by its intervention, should it intervene.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 22(1) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625, and of Article 67 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.