Action brought on 17 April 2024 – Terranova Directorship and Wamos Air v EUIPO – Vamos Motor Company (vamos)

(Case T-207/24)

Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish

Parties

Applicants: Terranova Directorship, SL (Madrid, Spain), Wamos Air, SA (Madrid) (represented by: J. M. Mora Cortés, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Vamos Motor Company, SL (Valencia, Spain)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Applicant for the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal

Trade mark at issue: Application for EU figurative mark vamos – Application for registration No 18 347 470

Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 1 February 2024 in Case R 864/2023-1

Form of order sought

The applicants claim that the Court should:

annul the contested decision in so far as it upholds the appeal R 864/2023-1 filed by Vamos Motor Company, S.L., and therefore refuses the contested European Union trade mark No 18 347 470 vamos (figurative mark) for all the services protected in Class 39;

order EUIPO and the intervener to pay the costs of the entire proceedings, including those relating to the proceedings before the Opposition Division and the Board of Appeal of EUIPO.

Plea in law

Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

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