Action brought on 28 February 2024 – Taokaenoi Food & Marketing v EUIPO – Norma Lebensmittelfilialbetrieb (TAO KAE NOI)

(Case T-119/24)

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Taokaenoi Food & Marketing plc (Nonthaburi, Thailand) (represented by: B. Lhomme-Houzai, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Norma Lebensmittelfilialbetrieb Stiftung & Co. KG (Nuremberg, Germany)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court

Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union figurative trade mark TAO KAE NOI – Application for registration No 18 517 834)

Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 19 December 2023 in Case R 596/2023-4

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

annul the contested decision and the decision of the Opposition Division of 20 January 2023;

reject the opposition n° B 3 154 347 lodged by Norma Lebensmittelfilialbetrieb Stiftung & Co.KG. against the registration of the trademark application No 18 517 834;

order EUIPO and if it intervenes, Norma Lebensmittelfilialbetrieb Stiftung & Co.KG., to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by Taokaenoi Food & Marketing Public Company Limited at every stage of the opposition and appeal proceedings.

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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