CELEX: 62019TN0574
Language: en
Date: 2019-08-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-574/19: Action brought on 16 August 2019 – Tinnus Enterprises v EUIPO – Mystic Products Import & Export and Koopman International (Fluid distribution equipment)

7.10.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 337/20
            
         
      Action brought on 16 August 2019 – Tinnus Enterprises v EUIPO – Mystic Products Import & Export and Koopman International (Fluid distribution equipment)
      (Case T-574/19)
      (2019/C 337/21)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Tinnus Enterprises LLC (Plano, Texas, United States) (represented by: A. Odle, lawyer and J. St Ville, Barrister)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Mystic Products Import & Export, SL (Badalona, Spain), Koopman International BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the design at issue: Applicant before the General Court
      
         Design at issue: Community design No 1431 829-0001
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 June 2019 in Case R 1002/2018-3
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  alter the contested decision to: (i) allow the applicant’s appeal; (ii) dismiss in its entirety the invalidity applicants’ applications ICD 10292 and ICD 10689 to declare the RCD an issue invalid; (iii) order the invalidity applicants to pay the applicant’s costs in front of the Board of Appeal and the Invalidity Division; (iv) alternatively remit to the Invalidity Division to address Article 4(1) CDR.
               
            
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                  order the payment the appellant’s fees and costs.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1) and of Recital 10 of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002.