CELEX: 62020TA0254
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-254/20: Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Kondyterska korporatsiia ‘Roshen’ v EUIPO — Krasnyj Octyabr (Representation of a lobster) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Application for an EU figurative mark representing a lobster — Absolute grounds for refusal — Distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — No descriptive character — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation 2017/1001) — Right to be heard — Article 94 of Regulation 2017/1001)

29.11.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 481/22
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Kondyterska korporatsiia ‘Roshen’ v EUIPO — Krasnyj Octyabr (Representation of a lobster)
      (Case T-254/20) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Application for an EU figurative mark representing a lobster - Absolute grounds for refusal - Distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - No descriptive character - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation 2017/1001) - Right to be heard - Article 94 of Regulation 2017/1001)
      (2021/C 481/31)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Dochirnie pidpryiemstvo Kondyterska korporatsiia ‘Roshen’ (Kiev, Ukraine) (represented by: I. Lukauskienė, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Folliard Monguiral and V. Ruzek, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: PAO Moscow Confectionery Factory ‘Krasnyj Octyabr’ (Moscow, Russia)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 March 2020 (Case R 1916/2019-4), relating to invalidity proceedings between Dochirnie pidpryiemstvo Kondyterska korporatsiia ‘Roshen’ and PAO Moscow Confectionery Factory ‘Krasnyj Octyabr’.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Dochirnie pidpryiemstvo Kondyterska korporatsiia ‘Roshen’ to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 215, 29.6.2020.