CELEX: 62010TO0360
Language: en
Date: 2012-10-03 00:00:00
Title: Order of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 3 October 2012. # Tecnimed Srl v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Period allowed for bringing proceedings - Out of time - No unforeseeable circumstances - No force majeure - Right of access to a court - Manifest inadmissibility. # Case T-360/10.

Order of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 3 October 2012 — Tecnimed v OHIM — Ecobrands (ZAPPER-CLICK)
      (Case T-360/10)
      Community trade mark — Period allowed for bringing proceedings — Out of time — No unforeseeable circumstances — No force majeure — Right of access to a court — Manifest inadmissibility
      1.                     Actions for annulment — Time-limits — Mandatory — Examination by the EU judicature of its own motion (Art. 263, sixth para.,
            TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 102(2)) (see paras 11, 12)
      2.                     Proceedings — Time-limit for instituting proceedings — Claim barred by lapse of time — Unforeseeable circumstances or force
            majeure — Concept (Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 45, second para.) (see para. 22)
      3.                     European Union law — Direct effect — National procedural rules — Conditions under which applicable — Compliance with principles
            of equivalence and effectiveness (see paras 29, 33-35)
      4.                     Proceedings — Time-limit for instituting proceedings — Action introduced by fax — Requirement that fax be identical with the
            original of the application — Aim — Proportionality (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 43(6)) (see paras 37-40,
            42-47)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 June 2010 (Case R 1795/2008-4), concerning
                  invalidity proceedings between Tecnimed Srl and Ecobrands Ltd.
               
            Operative part
      
         
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                  	The action is dismissed.
               
            
         
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                  	Tecnimed Srl is ordered to pay the costs.