CELEX: 62021TN0521
Language: en
Date: 2021-08-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-521/21: Action brought on 26 August 2021 — 6Minutes Media v EUIPO — ad pepper media International (ad pepper the e-advertising network)

18.10.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 422/26
            
         
      Action brought on 26 August 2021 — 6Minutes Media v EUIPO — ad pepper media International (ad pepper the e-advertising network)
      (Case T-521/21)
      (2021/C 422/35)
      Language in which the application was lodged: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: 6Minutes Media GmbH (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: N. Marquard and P. Koch, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: ad pepper media International NV (Nuremberg, Germany)
      
         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: EU figurative mark ad pepper the e-advertising network in grey and red — EU trade mark No 9 680 737
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 June 2021 in Case R 1621/2020-5
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision in so far as it dismissed the application for revocation of EU trade mark No 9 680 737 and revoke EU trade mark No 9 680 737 in its entirety;
               
            
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                  order the defendant and — in the event of formal intervention — also the other party before the Board of Appeal to pay the costs of the proceedings, including the costs incurred by the applicant.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 58(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 18(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 58(1)(a) in conjunction with Article 18(1)(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 58(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council by the defendant’s decision which is vitiated by an error of law without proof of genuine use.