CELEX: C2003/213/57
Language: en
Date: 2003-09-06 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 25 June 2003 in Case T-72/01 Norman Pyres v Commission of the European Communities (Officials — Internal competition — Exclusion from the oral test)

C 213/30                 EN                          Official Journal of the European Union                                       6.9.2003
       as it charges to the applicant, for the mission to the Hague of       President, and P. Mengozzi and M. Vilaras, Judges; J. Plingers,
       12 to 18 August 1999, a sum overclaimed in respect of air             Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on
       travel costs of BEF 1 921 instead of BEF 1 291;                       25 June 2003, in which it:
2.     Orders the defendant to repay to the applicant the sum of             1.     Dismisses the application;
       EUR 15,62 together with interest to run from 26 June 2000,
       at the rate fixed by the European Central Bank for principal
       refinancing operations applicable for the period in question,         2.     Orders the parties to bear their own costs.
       increased by two points;
3.     Dismisses the remainder of the application;                           (1 ) OJ No C 150 of 19 May 2001.
4.     Orders the defendant to bear its own costs and to pay one-sixth
       of those incurred by the applicant.
( 1) OJ No C 79 of 10 March 2001.
                                                                                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                                                                                                         of 3 July 2003
                                                                             in Case T-122/01: Best Buy Concepts Inc. v Office for
                                                                             Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
     JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                                                         Designs) (OHIM) ( 1)
                                                                             (Community trade mark — Figurative mark containing the
                           of 25 June 2003                                   word mark ‘best buy’ — Absolute ground for refusal —
                                                                             Distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC)
                                                                                                           No 40/94)
in Case T-72/01 Norman Pyres v Commission of the
                     European Communities ( 1)
                                                                                                        (2003/C 213/58)
(Officials — Internal competition — Exclusion from the oral
                                  test)                                                         (Language of the case: German)
                           (2003/C 213/57)
                                                                             In Case T-122/01, Best Buy Concepts Inc., established in Eden
                                                                             Prairie, Minnesota (United States), represented by S. Rojahn,
                      (Language of the case: French)
                                                                             lawyer, v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
                                                                             (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agent: G. Schneider):
                                                                             Application for annulment of the decision of the Third Board
                                                                             of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal
                                                                             Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 21 March 2001 (Case
In Case T-72/01 Norman Pyres, a former member of the                         R 44/2000-3) concerning an application for registration of a
temporary staff, residing in Brussels (Belgium), represented by              figurative mark containing the word mark ‘best buy’ as a
G. Vandersanden and L. Levi, avocats, against the Commission                 Community trade mark, the Court of First Instance (Second
of the European Communities (Agent: J. Currall) — application                Chamber), composed of: N.J. Forwood, President, J. Pirrung
for annulment of the decision of the Selection Board in                      and A.W.H. Meij, Judges; D. Christensen, Administrator, for
competition COM/TA/99 excluding the applicant from the                       the Registrar, has given a judgment on 3 July 2003, in which
oral test in the competition and of all subsequent operations                it:
and acts in the competition and, additionally, a claim for
damages for the loss allegedly suffered by the applicant — the
Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber), composed of V. Tiili,              1.     Dismisses the application;