Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2022:563
Date: 2022-09-14
Language of the case: English
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Germany

Action brought on 22 September 2021 – Privatbrauerei Eichbaum v EUIPO – Anchor Brewing Company (STEAM) (Case T-609/21) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Privatbrauerei Eichbaum GmbH & Co. KG (Mannheim, Germany) (represented by: M. Schmidhuber and E. Levenson, lawyers) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Anchor Brewing Company LLC (San Francisco, California, United States) Details of the proceedings before EUIPO Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal Trade mark at issue: European Union word mark STEAM – European Union trade mark No 5 435 375 Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 July 2021 in Case R 780/2020-2 Form of order sought The applicant claims that the Court should: annul the contested decision to the extent that it dismissed the appeal against the decision of the Cancellation Division relating to the goods “beer, alcoholic beer” in Class 32 and; alter the contested decision by declaring the European trade mark registration STEAM No 5 435 375 revoked in its entirety and; order EUIPO to bear the costs of the proceedings. Pleas in law Infringement of Article 58(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Infringement of Article 94(1), first sentence, of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Infringement of Article 94(1), second sentence, of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. ____________