CELEX: 62017TN0072
Language: en
Date: 2017-02-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-72/17: Action brought on 3 February 2017 — Schmid v EUIPO — Landeskammer für Land- und Forstwirtschaft in Steiermark (Steirisches Kürbiskernöl)

3.4.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 104/59
            
         Action brought on 3 February 2017 — Schmid v EUIPO — Landeskammer für Land- und Forstwirtschaft in Steiermark (Steirisches Kürbiskernöl)
   (Case T-72/17)
   (2017/C 104/83)
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Gabriele Schmid (Halbenrain, Austria) (represented by: B. Kuchar, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Landeskammer für Land- und Forstwirtschaft in Steiermark (Graz, Austria)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Proprietor of the mark at issue: The other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
   
      Mark at issue: International registration designating the European Union in respect of the mark ‘Steirisches Kürbiskernöl’ — International registration No 900 100
   
      Proceedings before EUIPO: Revocation proceedings
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 7 December 2016 in Case R 1768/2015-4
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               amend the contested decision and declare the mark IR No 900 100 to be revoked for the EU for all goods;
               in the alternative
            
         
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               annul the contested decision on account of the failure to provide evidence of use of IR No 900 100 as a trade mark and refer the proceedings back to EUIPO;
            
         
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               in any event, order the proprietor of the mark to pay the applicant’s costs incurred in the proceedings before EUIPO and in the present proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               infringement of Article 15(1) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               infringement of Article 51(1)(a) of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               infringement of Article 55(1) of Regulation No 207/2009.