Official Journal of the European Union

C 255/28

(Case T-361/20)

(2020/C 255/37)

Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: El Corte Inglés, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J. L. Rivas Zurdo, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Europull Srl (Carpi, Italy)

Details of the proceedings before EUIPO

Proprietor of the trade mark at issue: Applicant before the General Court

Trade mark at issue: Figurative mark GREEN COAST — EU trade mark No 14 936 694

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 30 March 2020 in Case R 1555/2019-4

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

—annul the contested decision, in so far as, by dismissing the applicant’s appeal, it confirms the Cancellation Division’s decision No 13 595 C declaring the invalidity of the mark and confirms the cancellation of EU trade mark No 14 936 694 GREEN COAST (figurative), in Class 25;

—order any party or parties who oppose this application to pay the costs.

Pleas in law

—The contested decision infringes the regulations on the substantiation of the earlier right (Italian mark with application No MO1997C000283 and Registration No 0001247661), in essence, in paragraph 22 of that decision, by finding that right to be substantiated, and also in paragraphs 15 to 21, which contain the main reasons for that conclusion;

—Infringement of Article 12(2)(a) and Article 2(2)(b)(i) — to which it refers — and also Article 7(2)(a)(ii) — mutatis mutandis — of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625.

—Infringement of Article 18(1)(a) and Article 8(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and the Council.