Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

Judgment of the General Court (Tenth Chamber) of 29 June 2022 –  
Hochmann Marketing v EUIPO (bittorrent)

(Case T‑337/20) (
[1](#t-ECR_62020TJ0337_INF_EN_01-E0001)
)

(EU trade mark – Board of Appeal decision confirming the revocation of an earlier decision – Article 103(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 – Request for conversion into a national trade mark application – Ground precluding conversion – Non-use of the EU trade mark – Article 139(2)(a) of Regulation 2017/1001 – Right to be heard – Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights)

| 1. | Judicial proceedings – Examination of the substance before examination of admissibility – Whether permissible  (see para. 22) |

| 2. | EU trade mark – Procedural provisions – Cancellation or revocation – Condition – Obvious error – Meaning  (European Parliament and Council Regulation 2017/1001, Arts 102(1) and 103(1))  (see paras 32, 33) |

| 3. | EU trade mark – Appeals procedure – Boards of Appeal – Classification of the Office as an administration – Right of the parties to a fair trial – None  (Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 47; European Parliament and Council Regulation 2017/1001)  (see para. 55) |

| 4. | Judicial proceedings – Res judicata – Scope  (see para. 68) |

| 5. | EU trade mark – Procedural provisions – Decisions of the Office – Observance of the rights of the defence – Scope of the principle  (European Parliament and Council Regulation 2017/1001, Art. 94(1), second sentence)  (see para. 82) |

| 6. | EU trade mark – Appeals procedure – Appeal brought against a decision of a unit of the Office ruling at first instance and referred to the Board of Appeal – Functional continuity between those two bodies – Examination of the appeal by the Board of Appeal – Scope  (European Parliament and Council Regulation 2017/1001, Art. 71(1))  (see para. 83) |

| 7. | EU trade mark – Appeals procedure – Action before the EU judicature – Jurisdiction of the General Court – Review of the lawfulness of the decisions of the national courts – Precluded  (European Parliament and Council Regulation 2017/1001, Art. 72(3))  (see para. 109) |

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Hochmann Marketing GmbH to pay the costs. |

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(
[1](#c-ECR_62020TJ0337_INF_EN_01-E0001)
) [OJ C 255, 3.8.2020](./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=OJ:C:2020:255:TOC).

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