CELEX: 62008TN0245
Language: en
Date: 2008-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-245/08: Action brought on 20 June 2008 — Iranian Tobacco v OHIM — AD Bulgartabac (TIR 20 FILTER CIGARETTES)

30.8.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 223/51
            
         Action brought on 20 June 2008 — Iranian Tobacco v OHIM — AD Bulgartabac (TIR 20 FILTER CIGARETTES)
   (Case T-245/08)
   (2008/C 223/90)
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Iranian Tobacco Company (Tehran, Iran) (represented by: M. Beckensträter, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: AD Bulgartabac Holding (Sofia, Bulgaria)
   Form of order sought
   
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               annul the decision of the First Board of Appeal of 11 April 2008 (Case R 708/2007-1), notified on 21 April 2008;
            
         
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               order the third party to pay the refundable costs, including those of the main proceedings and of the defendant;
            
         
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               in the alternative, annul the decision of 11 April 2008 and that of 7 March 2007 — 1414C — and hold the third party's application of 8 November 2005 to be inadmissible.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Registered Community trade mark in respect of which a declaration of invalidity has been sought: the figurative mark ‘TIR 20 FILTER CIGARETTES’ for goods in Class 34 (Community trade mark No 400 804).
   
      Proprietor of the Community trade mark: the applicant.
   
      Applicant for the declaration of invalidity: AD Bulgartabac Holding.
   
      Decision of the Cancellation Division: cancellation of the relevant Community trade mark.
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: dismissal of the applicant's appeal.
   
      Pleas in law: conditions of admissibility to be taken into consideration ex officio by OHIM concerning AD Bulgartabac Holding's application were not examined, contrary to Community law, to Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (1) and to other procedural principles.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1).