Case C-311/05 P: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 4 October 2007 — Naipes Heraclio Fournier, SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), France Cartes SAS (Appeal — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Community trade mark — Figurative marks comprising the representation of a sword , a knight of clubs and a king of swords in a pack of cards — Declaration of invalidity of the mark)
Date: 2007-12-08
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, General Court (EU), appeal, gaming, leisure, trade-mark law

8.12.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 297/5

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 11 October
the European Communities v
2007 — Commission of

Hellenic Republic

(Case C-237/05) (1)

(Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Directive
92/50/EEC — Public service contracts — Provision of assis-
tance services to farmers for the year 2001 — Regulation
(EEC) No 3508/92 — Implementation in Greek of the inte-
grated administration and control system (IACS) — Absence
of call for tenders — Application inadmissible)

(2007/C 297/06)

Language of the case: Greek

Parties

Applicant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: M. Patakia and X. Lewis, Agents)

Other parties to the proceedings: Office for Harmonisation in the
Internal Market
(represented by:
(Trade Marks and Designs)
O. Montalto, I. de Medrano Caballero and O. Mondéjar, Agents),
France Cartes SAS represented by: C. de Haas, avocat)

Re:

Appeal brought against the judgment of
the Court of First
Instance (Third Chamber) of 11 May 2005 in Joined Cases
T-160/02 to T-162/02 Naipes Heraclio Fournier v OHIM (inter-
vener: France Cartes SAS), by which the Court of First Instance
dismissed the actions brought against three decisions of the
Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the
Internal Market (OHIM) of 28 February 2002, allowing the
applications for declarations of
invalidity brought by France
Cartes SAS in respect of three figurative marks of which the
applicant is proprietor

Defendant: Hellenic Republic (represented by: G. Kanellopoulos
and S. Charitaki, Agents)

Operative part of the judgment

Re:

Failure of a Member State to fulfil its obligations — Infringe-
ment of Articles 3(2), 7, 11(1) and 15(2) of Council Directive
92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of
procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ 1992
L 209, p. 1)

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1) Dismisses the action as inadmissible;

2) Orders the Commission of the European Communities to pay the

costs.

(1) OJ C 193, 6.8.2005.

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 4 October
2007 — Naipes Heraclio Fournier, SA v Office for
Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
Designs), France Cartes SAS

(Case C-311/05 P) (1)

The Court:

1. Dismisses the appeal;

2. Orders Naipes Heraclio Fournier, SA to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 243 of 1.10.2005.

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 October 2007
(reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesverwal-
tungsgericht — Germany) — Erhard Geuting v Direktor
der Landwirtschaftskammer Nordrhein-Westfalen

(Case C-375/05) (1)

(Beef and veal — Premium for maintaining suckler cows)

(2007/C 297/08)

Language of the case: German

(Appeal — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Community trade
mark — Figurative marks comprising the representation of a
‘sword’, a ‘knight of clubs’ and a ‘king of swords’ in a pack of
cards — Declaration of invalidity of the mark)

Referring court

Bundesverwaltungsgericht

(2007/C 297/07)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties to the main proceedings

Parties

Applicant: Erhard Geuting

Appellant: Naipes Heraclio Fournier, SA (represented by:
E. Armijo Chávarri and A. Castán Pérez-Gómez, abogados)

Defendant: Direktor der Landwirtschaftskammer Nordrhein-
Westfalen