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Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 9 March 2012.
Atlas Transport GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
Appeal - Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure - Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Admissibility before the Board of Appeal - Failure to file a statement setting out the grounds of appeal - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 59 - Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 - Rule 49(1) - Stay of proceedings - Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 - Rule 20(7)(c) - Appeal manifestly inadmissible and manifestly unfounded.
Case C-406/11 P.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2012:136





Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 9 March 2012 —
Atlas Transport v OHIM

(Case C‑406/11 P)

Appeal — Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure — Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Admissibility before the Board of Appeal — Failure to file a statement setting out the grounds of appeal — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 59 — Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 — Rule 49(1) — Stay of proceedings — Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 — Rule 20(7)(c) — Appeal manifestly inadmissible and manifestly unfounded

1.                     Appeals — Grounds — Mere repetition of the pleas and arguments put forward before the General Court — Error of law relied on not identified — Inadmissibility (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 112(1)(c)) (see paras 31, 32)

2.                     Community trade mark — Appeals procedure — Form of appeal and period within which it must be brought — Pleading setting out the grounds lodged within the period prescribed — Condition of admissibility (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 59; Commission Regulation No 2868/95, Art. 1, Rule 49(1)) (see para. 46)

Re:

Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 16 May 2011 in Case T‑145/08 Atlas Transport GmbH v OHIM , by which that court dismissed the action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 24 January 2008 (Case R 1023/2007-1) relating to invalidity proceedings between ATLAS Air Inc. and Atlas Transport GmbH — Interpretation of Article 59 of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1) and of Rule 20(7)(c) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 of 13 December 1995 implementing Regulation No 40/94 (OJ 1995 L 303, p. 1) — Circumstances justifying the stay of the cancellation proceedings — Application for annulment of the mark on which the opposition is founded pending before the national court.

Operative part

1.

The appeal is dismissed.

2.

Atlas Transport GmbH is ordered to pay the costs.

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