CELEX: 62017TN0219
Language: en
Date: 2017-04-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-219/17: Action brought on 12 April 2017 — M J Quinlan & Associates v EUIPO — Intersnack Group (Shape of a kangaroo)

6.6.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 178/31
            
         Action brought on 12 April 2017 — M J Quinlan & Associates v EUIPO — Intersnack Group (Shape of a kangaroo)
   (Case T-219/17)
   (2017/C 178/45)
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: M J Quinlan & Associates Pty Ltd (Hope Island, Queensland, Australia) (represented by: M. Freiherr von Welser and A. Bender, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Intersnack Group GmbH & Co. KG (Düsseldorf, Germany)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant
   
      Trade mark at issue: EU tridimensional mark (Shape of a kangaroo) — European Union trade mark No 13 342
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Proceedings for a declaration of invalidity
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 27 January 2017 in Case R 218/2016-2
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the contested decision;
            
         
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               order EUIPO to pay the costs;
            
         
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               conduct an oral hearing, in order to ensure the parties’ right to a full hearing.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 51(1)(a) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 51(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 15(2) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 51(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 15(1)(2)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009.