CELEX: 62010TA0041
Language: en
Date: 2011-05-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-41/10: Judgment of the General Court of 5 May 2011 — SIMS — École de ski internationale v OHIM — SNMSF (esf école du ski français) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community figurative mark esf école du ski français — Absolute grounds for refusal — State emblem — Article 7(1)(h) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 6ter of the Paris Convention — Mark of such a nature as to deceive the public — Article 7(1)(g) of Regulation No 207/2009)

25.6.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 186/24
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 5 May 2011 — SIMS — École de ski internationale v OHIM — SNMSF (esf école du ski français)
   (Case T-41/10) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community figurative mark esf école du ski français - Absolute grounds for refusal - State emblem - Article 7(1)(h) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Article 6ter of the Paris Convention - Mark of such a nature as to deceive the public - Article 7(1)(g) of Regulation No 207/2009)
   2011/C 186/45
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Syndicat international des moniteurs de ski — École de ski internationale (SIMS — École de ski internationale) (Albertville, France) (represented by: L. Raison-Rebufat, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: initially A. Folliard-Monguiral and subsequently by A. Folliard-Monguiral and J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Syndicat national des moniteurs du ski français (SNMSF) (Meylan, France) (represented by: J.-P. Stouls, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 11 November 2009 (Case R 235/2009-1), concerning invalidity proceedings between the Syndicat international des moniteurs de ski — École de ski internationale (SIMS — École de ski internationale) and the Syndicat national des moniteurs du ski français (SNMSF)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders the Syndicat international des moniteurs de ski — École de ski internationale (SIMS — École de ski internationale) to pay the costs incurred by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM);
            
         
               3.
            
            
               orders the Syndicat national des moniteurs du ski français to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 100, 17.4.2010.