Action brought on 26 April 2024 – SMT v EUIPO – Pies and Rixen (Building materials)

(Case T-220/24)

Language in which the application was lodged: German

Parties

Applicant: SMT GmbH (Reutlingen, Germany) (represented by: T. Seifried, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Gerrit Pies (Solingen, Germany), Wolfgang Rixen (Solingen)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietors of the design at issue: Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal

Design at issue: Community design ‘Building materials’ – Community design No 222 070-0006

Proceedings before EUIPO: Invalidity proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 5 March 2024 in Case R 2163/2022-3

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

annul the contested decision;

order EUIPO to pay the costs, including those incurred in the proceedings before the Board of Appeal.

Pleas in law

Infringement of the first sentence of Article 62 of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002;

Infringement of Article 63(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002;

Infringement of Article 25(1)(b), in conjunction with Article 4(1) and Article 6(1)(b), of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002;

Infringement of Article 25(1)(b), in conjunction with Article 8(1), of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002;

Infringement of Article 25(1)(b), in conjunction with Article 8(2), of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002;

Infringement of Article 25(1)(b), in conjunction with Article 4(2) and Article 6(1)(b), of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002.

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