CELEX: 62020TN0758
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-758/20: Action brought on 22 December 2020 — Monster Energy v EUIPO — Frito-Lay Trading Company (MONSTER)

15.2.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 53/63
            
         
      Action brought on 22 December 2020 — Monster Energy v EUIPO — Frito-Lay Trading Company (MONSTER)
      (Case T-758/20)
      (2021/C 53/79)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Monster Energy Co. (Corona, California, United States) (represented by: P. Brownlow, Solicitor)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Frito-Lay Trading Company GmbH (Bern, Switzerland)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court
      
         Trade mark at issue: European Union word mark MONSTER — European Union trade mark No 9 492 158
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 5 October 2020 in Case R 2927/2019-2
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  annul the decision of the Cancellation Division of 22 October 2019 to the extent that it revoked the Registration for goods in Class 30;
               
            
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                  dismiss the application for revocation of the Registration for goods in Class 30;
               
            
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                  order EUIPO to bear its own costs of the proceedings and pay those of the applicant.
               
            
         Plea in law
      
      
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                  Incorrect application of Article 58(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.