Action brought on 2 November 2021 – Zielonogórski Klub Żużlowy Sportowa v EUIPO – Falubaz Polska (FALUBAZ)

(Case T-703/21)

Language in which the application was lodged: Polish

Parties

Applicant: Zielonogórski Klub Żużlowy Sportowa S.A. (Zielona Góra, Poland) (represented by: T. Grucelski, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Falubaz Polska S.A. spółka komandytowo-akcyjna (Zielona Góra)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant

Trade mark at issue: EU word mark ‘FALUBAZ’ – EU trade mark No 14 535 835

Procedure before EUIPO: Invalidity proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 24 August 2021 in Case R 1681/2020-1

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

annul the contested decision in its entirety;

order the unsuccessful party to pay the costs incurred by the applicant in the proceedings before the General Court of the European Union and any costs necessarily incurred by the applicant for the purposes of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO;

in the event of intervention in the proceedings by the other party, order that party to bear its own costs.

Pleas in law

Infringements of the principle of free evaluation of evidence through an arbitrary evaluation of the evidence obtained;

Infringement of Article 52(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 ¹ (now Article 59(1)(b) of [Regulation (EU) 2017/1001]).

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¹ Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1).