Action brought on 19 September 2019 — Daw v EUIPO (SOS Innenfarbe)

(Case T-625/19)

(2019/C 372/37)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Daw SE (Ober-Ramstadt, Germany) (represented by: A. Haberl, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Trade mark at issue: Registration of the European Union word mark ‘SOS Innenfarbe’ — Application for registration No 17 870 690

Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 July 2019 in Case R 277/2019-4

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

—	annul the contested decision;

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annul the Decision of EUIPO of 7 January 2019 in so far as it rejects the application for registration of the mark ‘SOS Innenfarbe’ in respect of the following goods in Class 2: — ‘Paints, lacquers, lasures, paints, preservatives against rust; Primers; Dyes, colorants, paint paste, mordants; Thickeners for colours; Fixing solutions, siccatives for colours; Thinners and binders for paints, lacquers and coatings; Solvents for thinning paints; Preservatives for wood, wood mordants and wood preservatives; Coatings, including textured; bactericides and/or fungicides; Corrosion inhibiting admixtures; Protective preparations for metals’;

—	order EUIPO to allow the application for registration to be published, as lodged;

—	order EUIPO to pay the costs.

Plea in law

—	Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (c) and (2) of Regulation No 2017/1001.