CELEX: C2007/223/04
Language: en
Date: 2007-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-301/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 26 June 2007 — PAGO International GmbH v Tirolmilch registrierte Genossenschaft mbH

22.9.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 223/4
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 26 June 2007 — PAGO International GmbH v Tirolmilch registrierte Genossenschaft mbH
   (Case C-301/07)
   (2007/C 223/04)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Oberster Gerichtshof
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: PAGO International GmbH
   
      Defendant: Tirolmilch registrierte Genossenschaft mbH
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Is a Community trade mark protected in the whole of the Community as a ‘trade mark with a reputation’ for the purposes of Article 9(1)(c) of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (1) (Regulation 40/94) if it has a ‘reputation’ only in one Member State?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the answer to the first question is in the negative: is a mark which has a ‘reputation’ only in one Member State protected in that Member State under Article 9(1)(c) of Regulation 40/94, so that a prohibition limited to that Member State may be issued?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1.