CELEX: 62017TN0691
Language: en
Date: 2017-09-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-691/17: Action brought on 28 September 2017 — hoechstmass Balzer v EUIPO (Shape of a tape measure)

27.11.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 402/54
            
         Action brought on 28 September 2017 — hoechstmass Balzer v EUIPO (Shape of a tape measure)
   (Case T-691/17)
   (2017/C 402/71)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: hoechstmass Balzer GmbH (Sulzbach, Germany) (represented by: K. Zapfer, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
   
      Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
   
   
      Trade mark at issue: Tridimensional EU mark (Shape of a tape measure) — Application for registration No 15 004 997
   
      Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 28 July 2017 in Case R 2331/2016-4
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               annul the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 28 July 2017 (Case R 2331/2016-4) — the contested decision — as regards the tridimensional mark 015004997;
            
         
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               order the defendant/EUIPO to pay the costs of the appeal proceedings and the proceedings before the Board of Appeal;
               in the alternative
            
         
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               limit the list of goods in class 09 by adding the words ‘tailors’ to ‘tailors’ tape measure’ and annul the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 28 July 2017 in that it covers ‘tailors’ tape measures’.
            
         
      Plea in law
   
   
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               Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009.