CELEX: 62008TA0214
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-214/08: Judgment of the General Court of 28 March 2012 — Rehbein v OHIM — Dias Martinho (OUTBURST) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for registration of the Community figurative mark OUTBURST — Earlier national word mark OUTBURST — Genuine use of the earlier trade mark — Article 43(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) — Production of evidence for the first time before the Board of Appeal — Article 74(2) of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 76(2) of Regulation No 207/2009) — Rule 22(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95)

12.5.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 138/14
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 28 March 2012 — Rehbein v OHIM — Dias Martinho (OUTBURST)
   (Case T-214/08) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for registration of the Community figurative mark OUTBURST - Earlier national word mark OUTBURST - Genuine use of the earlier trade mark - Article 43(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 42(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009) - Production of evidence for the first time before the Board of Appeal - Article 74(2) of Regulation No 40/94 (now Article 76(2) of Regulation No 207/2009) - Rule 22(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95)
   2012/C 138/23
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Paul Alfons Rehbein (GmbH & Co.) KG (Glinde, Germany) (represented by: T. Lampel, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: D. Botis and P. Geroulakos, Agents)
   
      Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Hervé Dias Martinho and Manuel Carlos Dias Martinho (Le Plessis-Trévise, France)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 13 March 2008 (Case R 1261/2007-2) concerning opposition proceedings between, on the one hand, Paul Alfons Rehbein (GmbH & Co.) KG and, on the other hand, Hervé Dias Martinho and Manuel Carlos Dias Martinho.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 13 March 2008 (Case R 1261/2007-2);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 197, 2.8.2008.