CELEX: 62020TN0396
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-396/20: Action brought on 26 June 2020 — Riviera-Airport v EUIPO — Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur (RIVIERA AIRPORTS)

17.8.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 271/46
            
         
      Action brought on 26 June 2020 — Riviera-Airport v EUIPO — Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur (RIVIERA AIRPORTS)
      (Case T-396/20)
      (2020/C 271/59)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Aeroporto di Villanova d’Albenga SpA (Riviera-Airport) (Villanova d’Albenga, Italy) (represented by: G. Casucci, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur (Nice, France)
      
         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 figurative mark RIVIERA AIRPORTS in colour — European Union trade mark No 16 397 309
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 24 April 2020 in Case R 2172/2019-4
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the Court should:
      
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                  annul the contested decision;
               
            
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                  alter the contested decision to:
                  
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                              allow the applicant’s appeal,
                           
                        
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                              grant in its entirety the applicant’s cancellation application No. 20 825 C to declare the trade mark at issue invalid,
                           
                        
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                              order the European Union trade mark proprietor to pay the applicant’s costs before of the Board of Appeal and the Cancellation Division,
                           
                        
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                              alternatively remit the case to the Cancellation Division to address Article 59(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
                           
                        
            
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                  order the payment of the applicant’s fees and costs.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Failure to interpret the correct ruling of bad faith application;
               
            
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                  Wrong and partial analysis and evaluation of the relevant indicia required in the overall and case-by-case assessment of the bad faith application;
               
            
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                  Failure to consider all the other relevant indicia and the available evidence of the bad faith according to the required overall and case-by-case assessment of the bad faith application;
               
            
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                  Wrong interpretation and enforcement of Article 12(2) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625 to the case at issue;
               
            
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                  Failure of the Board of Appeal to carry out a correct analysis.