Action brought on 23 September 2021 – ADS L. Kowalik, B. Włodarczyk v EUIPO – ESSAtech (Remote controls [wireless] (Accessories for -))

(Case T-612/21)

Language in which the application was lodged: Polish

Parties

Applicant: ADS L. Kowalik, B. Włodarczyk s.c. (Sosnowiec, Poland) (represented by: M. Oleksyn, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: ESSAtech (Přistoupim, Czech Republic)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietor of the design at issue: Applicant

Design at issue: EU design Remote controls [wireless] (Accessories for -) – EU design No 4 539 302-0003

Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 July 2021 in Case R 1072/2020-3

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

annul the contested decision;

order EUIPO and the other party to the proceedings to bear their own costs, and order EUIPO and the other party to the proceedings to pay the costs incurred by the applicant, including those incurred in the proceedings before EUIPO.

Pleas in law

Infringements of Article 8(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002, read in conjunction with Article 25(1)(b) thereof, and breaches of the rule of law established in DOCERAM, C-395/16, ¹ as well as infringement of Article 41(2)(c) and Article 41(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (right to good administration);

Infringements of Article 63(1) of that regulation, read in conjunction with Article 63(2) thereof, and breaches of the rule of law established in DOCERAM, C-395/16, as well as infringement of Article 41(2)(c) and Article 41(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (right to good administration).

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¹ Judgment of 8 March 2018, DOCERAM, C-395/16, EU:C:2018:172.