Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 18 January 2018 — Monster Energy v EUIPO

(Case C‑678/16 P) (
[1](#t-ECR_62016CO0678_INF_EN_01-E0001)
)

(Appeal — Rules of Procedure — Article 181 — EU trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Figurative mark containing the word elements ‘HotoGo self-heating can technology’ — Composite mark — Application for registration — Opposition — Rejection — Appeal manifestly inadmissible)

| 1. | Appeal—Grounds—Plea submitted for the first time in the context of the appeal—Inadmissibility  (Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 170(1))  (see paras 43, 44) |

| 2. | Appeal—Grounds—Review by the Court of Justice of the assessment of the facts put before the General Court—Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted—Assessments relating to the similarity of the marks at issue  (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)  (see paras 48, 49) |

Operative part

| 1. | The appeal is dismissed. |

| 2. | Monster Energy Company shall pay the costs. |

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(
[1](#c-ECR_62016CO0678_INF_EN_01-E0001)
) [OJ C 144, 8.5.2017](./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=OJ:C:2017:144:TOC).

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