Action brought on 26 June 2020 — Riviera-Airport v EUIPO — Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur (RIVIERA AIRPORT)

(Case T-398/20)

(2020/C 271/60)

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 AIRPORT in colour — European Union trade mark No 16 392 731

Procedure before EUIPO: Cancellation proceedings

Contested decision: Decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 28 April 2020 in Case R 2174/2019-4

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

—	annul the contested decision;

—	alter the contested decision to:

—

allow the applicant’s appeal, — grant in its entirety the applicant’s cancellation application No. 20 824 C to declare the trade mark at issue invalid, — order the European Union trade mark proprietor to pay the applicant’s costs before of the Board of Appeal and the Cancellation Division, — 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;

—	order the payment of the applicant’s fees and costs.

Pleas in law

—	Failure to interpret the correct ruling of bad faith application;

—	Wrong and partial analysis and evaluation of the relevant indicia required in the overall and case-by-case assessment of the bad faith application;

—	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;

—	Wrong interpretation and enforcement of Article 12(2) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/625 to the case at issue;

—	Failure of the Board of Appeal to carry out a correct analysis.