CELEX: 62020TN0400
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-400/20: Action brought on 29 June 2020 — El Corte Inglés v EUIPO — Rudolf Böckenholt (LLOYD’S)

10.8.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 262/37
            
         
      Action brought on 29 June 2020 — El Corte Inglés v EUIPO — Rudolf Böckenholt (LLOYD’S)
      (Case T-400/20)
      (2020/C 262/50)
      Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: El Corte Inglés, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J.L. Rivas Zurdo, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Rudolf Böckenholt GmbH & Co. KG (Ostbevern, Germany)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court
      
         Trade mark at issue: Figurative mark LLOYD’S — EU trade mark No 2 957 132
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Invalidity proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 April 2020 in Case R 1119/2019-1
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision, inasmuch as, by dismissing the appeal brought by El Corte Inglés, S.A., it upholds the decision of the Cancellation Division partially upholding application No 18 381 C for a declaration of invalidity, and upholds the partial invalidity of EU trade mark No 2 957 132 LLOYD’S (figurative) for ‘goods made of these materials (leather and imitation of leather) and not included in other classes, excluding leather used for making footwear’ in Class 18;
               
            
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                  order the party or parties opposing this action to pay the costs.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 60(1)(a), in conjunction with Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
               
            
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                  Contradiction with the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO in Case R 562/2006-1 of 23 October 2009.
               
            
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                  Contradiction and lack of consistency of the decision as regards the arguments on which it is based, and infringement of Article 32(i) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1430.