CELEX: 62020TN0035
Language: en
Date: 2020-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-35/20: Action brought on 20 January 2020 – Monster Energy v EUIPO – Nanjing aisiyou Clothing (Device of a claw-like scratch)

2.3.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 68/70
            
         
      Action brought on 20 January 2020 – Monster Energy v EUIPO – Nanjing aisiyou Clothing (Device of a claw-like scratch)
      (Case T-35/20)
      (2020/C 68/78)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Monster Energy Company (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: Nanjing aisiyou Clothing Co. Ltd (Nanjing City, China)
      
         Details of the proceedings before EUIPO
      
      
         Applicant of the trade mark at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal
      
         Trade mark at issue: Application for European Union figurative mark representing a device of a claw-like scratch – Application for registration No 17 634 478
      
         Procedure before EUIPO: Opposition proceedings
      
         Contested decision: Decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 13 November 2019 in Case R 1104/2019-5
      
         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 Opposition Division of 21 March 2019 in Opposition B 3050458;
               
            
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                  reject the opposed mark for the contested goods and services, being all goods and services covered by the application;
               
            
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                  order the defendant to bear its own costs of the proceedings and pay those of the applicant.
               
            
         Pleas in law
      
      
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                  Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 8(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
               
            
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                  Infringement of Article 8(4) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.