CELEX: 62019TA0870
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-870/19: Judgment of the General Court of 21 December 2021 — Worldwide Spirits Supply v EUIPO — Melfinco (CLEOPATRA QUEEN) (EU trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — EU figurative mark CLEOPATRA QUEEN — Earlier national word mark CLEOPATRA MELFINCO — Articles 15 and 57 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Articles 18 and 64 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — Proof of genuine use of the earlier mark — Declaration of invalidity)

28.2.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 95/27
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 21 December 2021 — Worldwide Spirits Supply v EUIPO — Melfinco (CLEOPATRA QUEEN)
      (Case T-870/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - EU figurative mark CLEOPATRA QUEEN - Earlier national word mark CLEOPATRA MELFINCO - Articles 15 and 57 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Articles 18 and 64 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - Proof of genuine use of the earlier mark - Declaration of invalidity)
      (2022/C 95/36)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Worldwide Spirits Supply, Inc. (Tortola, British Virgin Islands) (represented by: S. Demetriou, 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: Melfinco S.A. (Schaan, Liechtenstein) (represented by: M. Gioti, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 21 October 2019 (Case R 1820/2018-4), relating to invalidity proceedings between Melfinco and Worldwide Spirits Supply.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Worldwide Spirits Supply, Inc. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO);
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Melfinco S.A. to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 77, 9.3.2020.