CELEX: 62022TN0044
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-44/22: Action brought on 24 January 2022 — International Masis Tabak v EUIPO — Philip Morris Brands (Representation of a pack of cigarettes)

14.3.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 119/54
            
         
      Action brought on 24 January 2022 — International Masis Tabak v EUIPO — Philip Morris Brands (Representation of a pack of cigarettes)
      (Case T-44/22)
      (2022/C 119/77)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: International Masis Tabak LLC (Masis, Armenia) (represented by: C. Bercial Arias and K. Dimidjian-Lecompte, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Philip Morris Brands Sàrl (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court
      
         Trade mark at issue: International registration designating the European Union in respect of the figurative mark (Representation of a pack of cigarettes) — International registration designating the European Union No 1 434 506
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 15 November 2021 in Case R 261/2021-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  upheld the appeal and annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO and the intervener, if it was the case, to bear the costs incurred by the applicant before the General Court.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.