CELEX: 62020TN0274
Language: en
Date: 2020-05-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-274/20: Action brought on 11 May 2020 — MHCS v EUIPO — Lidl Stiftung (Shades of colour orange)

27.7.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 247/21
            
         
      Action brought on 11 May 2020 — MHCS v EUIPO — Lidl Stiftung (Shades of colour orange)
      (Case T-274/20)
      (2020/C 247/31)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: MHCS (Épernay, France) (represented by: O. Vrins, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (Neckarsulm, Germany)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court
      
         Trade mark at issue: European Union figurative mark (Colour consisting of certain shades of the colour orange) — European Union trade mark No 747 949
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 24 February 2020 in Case R 2392/2018-1
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO and the intervener to bear their own costs;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO to pay the costs incurred by the applicant.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 95(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 26(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark and/or of Rule 1(1)(d) in conjunction with Rule 3(2), (3) and (5) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 of 13 December 1995, implementing Council Regulation (EC) No. 40/94 on the Community trade mark;
               
            
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                  Infringement of the general principle of the protection of legitimate expectations and the principles of legal certainty and sound administration (including the duty to state reasons);
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 94(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 41(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.