Case C-442/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Patent- und Markensenat (Austria) lodged on 27 September 2007 — Verein Radetzky-Orden v Bundesvereinigung Kameradschaft Feldmarschall Radetzky
Date: 2007-11-24
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: brand name, interpretation of the law, trade-mark law

24.11.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 283/23

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster
Patent- und Markensenat (Austria) lodged on 27 September
2007 — Verein Radetzky-Orden v Bundesvereinigung
Kameradschaft ‘Feldmarschall Radetzky’

(Case C-442/07)

(2007/C 283/40)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Oberster Patent — und Markensenat

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Verein Radetzky-Orden

Defendant: Bundesvereinigung Kameradschaft
Radetzky’.

‘Feldmarschall

Question referred

Is Article 12(1) of
[First Council Directive 89/104/EEC of
21 December 1988 to approximate the laws of the Member
States relating to trade marks] to be construed as meaning that
a trade mark is put to (genuine) use to distinguish goods and
services of one undertaking from those of other undertakings in
the case where a non-profit-making association uses the trade
mark in announcements for events, on business papers and on
advertising material and that trade mark is used by the associa-
tion's members when collecting and distributing donations inas-
much as those members wear badges featuring that trade mark?

Questions referred

that

is to say,

in the light of

1 In the light of Articles 3, 4, 16, 17 and 25 of Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency
proceedings (1),
the rules
governing the jurisdiction of the courts of the State in which
insolvency proceedings are opened,
the law applicable to
those proceedings and the conditions governing, and the
effects of recognition of, those proceedings, do the public
administrative authorities of a Member State have the power
to seize funds held in the bank account of an economic
subject following a declaration of
its insolvency made in
another EU Member State (application of the so-called seizure
of assets), thereby contravening the national legal rules of the
Member State which opened such proceedings (Article 4 of
Regulation No 1346/2000), where the conditions for the
application of the provisions of Articles 5 and 10 of that
regulation do not exist?

2 In the light of Article 25(1) et seq. of Council Regulation (EC)
No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings,
may the administrative authorities of the Member State in
which secondary insolvency proceedings have not been
opened and which must recognise the insolvency proceedings
pursuant to Article 16 of that regulation refuse, on the basis
of domestic legal rules, to recognise decisions made by the
State of the opening of insolvency proceedings relating to the
conduct and closure of insolvency proceedings pursuant to
Articles 31 to 51 of the Brussels Convention on jurisdiction
and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial
matters?

(1) OJ 2000 L 160, p. 1.

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Rejonowy
Gdańsk — Północ w Gdańsku (Republic of Poland) lodged
on 27 September 2007 — MG Probud Gdynia Sp. z o.o. v
Hauptzollamt Saarbrücken

(Case C-444/07)

(2007/C 283/41)

Appeal brought on 27 September 2007 by Ayuntamiento
de Madrid and Madrid Calle 30, SA against the order of the
Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) delivered on
12 July 2007 in Case T-177/06 Ayuntamiento de Madrid
and Madrid Calle 30, SA v Commission of the European
Communities

(Case C-448/07 P)

(2007/C 283/42)

Language of the case: Polish

Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Sąd Rejonowy Gdańsk — Północ w Gdańsku (Poland)

Parties

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: MG Probud Gdynia Sp. z o.o., Gdynia

Defendant: Hauptzollamt Saarbrücken

Appellants: Ayuntamiento de Madrid and Madrid Calle 30, SA
(represented by:
J.L. Buendía Sierra and R. González-Gallarza
Granizo, abogados)

Other party to the proceedings: Commission of
Communities

the European