Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

**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:**

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| 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**

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| 1. |  | The appeal is dismissed. |

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| 2. |  | Atlas Transport GmbH is ordered to pay the costs. |

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