CELEX: 62020TN0756
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-756/20: Action brought on 21 December 2020 — Nissan Motor v EUIPO — VDL Groep (VDL E-POWERED)

15.2.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 53/62
            
         
      Action brought on 21 December 2020 — Nissan Motor v EUIPO — VDL Groep (VDL E-POWERED)
      (Case T-756/20)
      (2021/C 53/78)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Nissan Motor Co. Ltd (Yokohama-shi, Japan) (represented by: P. Martini-Berthon, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: VDL Groep BV (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union word mark VDL E-POWERED — Application for registration No 17 895 699
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 20 October 2020 in Case R 2915/2019-1
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  allow the present applicant for annulment;
               
            
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO and, as the case may be, the intervener to bear their own costs and pay those of the applicant.
               
            
         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 94 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.