Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 20.2.2023 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 63/40 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 14 December 2022 — Hotel Cipriani v EUIPO — Altunis (CIPRIANI FOOD)

(Case T-358/21) [(1)](#ntr1-C_2023063EN.01004001-E0001)

(EU trade mark - Revocation proceedings - EU figurative mark CIPRIANI FOOD - Genuine use of a mark - Nature of use - Article 18(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 - Extent of use - Article 58(1)(a) and (2) of Regulation 2017/1001)

(2023/C 63/49)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Hotel Cipriani SpA (Venice, Italy) (represented by: M. Rieger-Jansen, D. Op de Beeck and W. Pors, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Altunis-Trading, Gestão e Serviços, Sociedade unipessoal, Lda (Funchal, Portugal) (represented by: M. Pomares Caballero, E. Salis and T. Barber Giner, lawyers)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks annulment of the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 27 April 2021 (Case R 1599/2020-4).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Hotel Cipriani SpA to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred, in connection with the present proceedings, by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Altunis-Trading, Gestão e Serviços, Sociedade unipessoal, Lda. |

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