CELEX: 62019TN0621
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-621/19: Action brought on 16 September 2019 – Ace of spades v EUIPO – Krupp and Borrmann (Shape of Champagne Grande reserve bottle)

25.11.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 399/75
            
         
      Action brought on 16 September 2019 – Ace of spades v EUIPO – Krupp and Borrmann (Shape of Champagne Grande reserve bottle)
      (Case T-621/19)
      (2019/C 399/93)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Ace of spades Holdings LLC (New York, New York, United States) (represented by: A. Gómez López, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Gerhard Ernst Krupp (Munich, Germany) and Elmar Borrmann (Reith, Austria)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Applicants of the trade mark at issue: Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union tridimensional mark (Shape of Champagne Grande reserve bottle) – Application for registration No 16 252 637
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 20 June 2019 in Case R 2/2019-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  upheld the present Appeal;
               
            
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                  annul the contested decision, and/or set aside the contested decision due to erroneous application of Articles 8(1) (b) EUTMR and 8(5) EUTMR and enter a finding to the effect that there does exist likelihood of confusion between the confronted trademarks;
               
            
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                  order the defendant (and intervener, if he enters an appearance in proceedings) to pay the costs.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1) (b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.