Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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|  | C/2025/3928 | 21.7.2025 |

Action brought on 27 May 2025 – Monster Computer Technology v EUIPO – Monster (MONSTER)

(Case T-341/25)

(C/2025/3928)

Language in which the application was lodged: English

Parties

Applicant: Monster Computer Technology GmbH (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: A. Renck, C. Stöber and A. Glinke, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Monster, Inc. (South 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 MONSTER – European Union trade mark No 8 738 122

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 10 March 2025 in Case R 617/2024-5

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

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| — | annul the contested decision; |

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| — | order EUIPO and the other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal, should it join the present proceedings, to pay the costs. |

Pleas in law

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| — | Infringement of Article 95(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council in conjunction with Article 27(4) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625; |

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| — | Infringement of Article 58(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |

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