CELEX: 62014TN0579
Language: en
Date: 2014-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Case T-579/14: Action brought on 1 August 2014  — Birkenstock Sales v OHIM (representation of a surface pattern)

6.10.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 351/20
            
         Action brought on 1 August 2014 — Birkenstock Sales v OHIM (representation of a surface pattern)
   (Case T-579/14)
   2014/C 351/25
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Birkenstock Sales GmbH (Vettelschoß, Germany) (represented by C. Menebröcker and V. Töbelmann, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 15 May 2014 in Case R 1952/2013-1;
            
         
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               order the defendant to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Community trade mark concerned: the international registration of the figurative mark representing a surface patter for goods in Classes 10, 18 and 25 — International registration No 1 1 32742
   
      Decision of the Examiner: Rejection of the application for registration
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal
   
      Plea in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009.