CELEX: 62017TN0770
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-770/17: Action brought on 24 November 2017 — Beats Electronics v EUIPO — TrekStor (i.Beat)

29.1.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/40
            
         Action brought on 24 November 2017 — Beats Electronics v EUIPO — TrekStor (i.Beat)
   (Case T-770/17)
   (2018/C 032/54)
   Language in which the application was lodged: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Beats Electronics LLC (Culver City, California, United States) (represented by: M. Petersenn, lawyer, I. Fowler and I. Junkar, Solicitors)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: TrekStor Ltd (Hong-Kong, Hong-Kong)
   
      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: EU word mark ‘i.Beat’ — EU trade mark No 5 009 139
   
      Procedure before EUIPO: Proceedings for a declaration of invalidity
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 September 2017 in Joined Cases R 2175/2016-4 and R 2213/2016-4
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the contested decision in so far as it dismissed the Applicant’s appeal recorded under number R 2175/2016-4 and allowed the Contested Mark to remain registered for MP3-players, in particular based on USB flash memory with mini hard discs;
            
         
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               order that the costs of the proceedings be borne by the Defendant and by the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal if it joins as intervener.
            
         
      Pleas in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 51(a) and (2) of Regulation No 207/2009 read in conjunction with Article 15 of Regulation No 207/2009;
            
         
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               Infringement of Article 75 of Regulation No. 207/2009.