CELEX: 62022TN0106
Language: en
Date: 2022-02-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-106/22: Action brought on 24 February 2022 — Foundation for the Protection of the Traditional Cheese of Cyprus named Halloumi v EUIPO — M. J. Dairies (BBQLOUMI)

19.4.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 165/41
            
         
      Action brought on 24 February 2022 — Foundation for the Protection of the Traditional Cheese of Cyprus named Halloumi v EUIPO — M. J. Dairies (BBQLOUMI)
      (Case T-106/22)
      (2022/C 165/49)
      Language in which the application was lodged: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Foundation for the Protection of the Traditional Cheese of Cyprus named Halloumi (Nicosia, Cyprus) (represented by: S. Malynicz, Barrister-at-Law, and C. Milbradt, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: M. J. Dairies EOOD (Sofia, Bulgaria)
      
         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 BBQLOUMI — European Union trade mark No 12 898 029
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 14 December 2021 in Case R 656/2021-4
      
         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 each bear their own costs and pay those of the applicant for annulment.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Articles 8(1)(b) and 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 74(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  The Board of Appeal contravened the case law of the Court of Justice concerning the distinctiveness;
               
            
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                  The Board of appeal wrongly allocated a burden of proof on earlier registered mark holder, the applicant, to show a required level of distinctiveness;
               
            
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                  The Board of Appeal failed to give proper reasons for its core finding that the earlier collective mark lacked distinctiveness.