CELEX: 62019TN0169
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-169/19: Action brought on 19 March 2019 — Style & Taste v EUIPO — The Polo/Lauren Company (Representation of a polo player)

6.5.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/56
            
         
      Action brought on 19 March 2019 — Style & Taste v EUIPO — The Polo/Lauren Company (Representation of a polo player)
      (Case T-169/19)
      (2019/C 155/66)
      Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Style & Taste, SL (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: L. Plaza Fernández-Villa, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: The Polo/Lauren Company LP (New York, New York, United States)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
      
         Trade mark at issue: Figurative mark (Representation of a polo player) — European Union trade mark No 4 049 201
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of
      7 January 2019 in Case R 1272/2018-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the General Court should declare that Community trade mark No 4 049 201 was preceded by industrial design 24087 and, consequently, declare that EU trade mark No 4 049 201, the property of PRL, lacks distinctiveness as laid down in the applicable rules and, consequently, annul that EU trade mark.
      
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 53(2) of Council Regulation (EU) No 207/2009.
               
            
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                  Infringement of national legislation on legal protection of an industrial design, and of the Intellectual Property Act.