Judgment of the General Court of 28 February 2024 – House Foods Group v CPVO (SK20)

(Case T-556/22)  (1)

(Plant varieties - Grant of a Community plant variety right for the plant variety SK20 - Inadmissibility of the appeal before the Board of Appeal - No interest in bringing proceedings - Article 81(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2100/94)

(C/2024/2612)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: House Foods Group, Inc. (Osaka, Japan) (represented by: G. Würtenberger, lawyer)

Defendant: Community Plant Variety Office (represented by: M. García-Moncó Fuente and O. Lamberti, acting as Agents)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the Board of Appeal of the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) of 1 July 2022 (Case A 018/2021).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

(1)   OJ C 424, 7.11.2022.