(Case T-574/19 Action brought on 16 August 2019– Tinnus Enterprises v EUIPO – Mystic Products Import & Export and Koopman International (Fluid distribution equipment)

Action brought on 16 August 2019– Tinnus Enterprises v EUIPO – Mystic Products Import & Export and Koopman International (Fluid distribution equipment)

(Case T-574/19)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Tinnus Enterprises LLC (Plano, Texas, United States) (represented by: A.Odle, lawyer and J.StVille, Barrister)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Mystic Products Import & Export, SL (Badalona, Spain), Koopman International BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietor of the design at issue: Applicant before the General Court

Design at issue: Community design No1431829-0001

Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12June2019 in Case R1002/2018-3

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

annul the contested decision;

alter the contested decisionto: (i) allow the applicant’s appeal; (ii) dismiss in its entirety the invalidity applicants’ applications ICD 10292 and ICD 10689 to declare the RCD an issue invalid; (iii) order the invalidity applicants to pay the applicant’s costs in front of the Board of Appeal and the Invalidity Division; (iv) alternatively remit to the Invalidity Division to address Article 4(1) CDR.

order the payment the appellant’s fees and costs.

Plea in law

Infringement of Article 8(1) and of Recital 10 of Council Regulation (EC) No6/2002.

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