CELEX: 62010TJ0314
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-28
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 28 June 2012. # Constellation Brands, Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Word mark COOK’S - Failure to apply for renewal of the mark - Cancellation of the mark upon expiry of the registration - Application for restitutio in integrum - Article 81 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-314/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 28 June 2012 —Constellation Brands v OHIM (COOK’S)(Case T-314/10)
      Community trade mark — Word mark COOK’S — Failure to apply for renewal of the mark — Cancellation of the mark upon expiry of the registration — Application for restitutio in integrum — Article 81 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      1.                     Community trade mark — Procedural provisions — Restitutio in integrum — Conditions — Vigilance required by circumstances —
            Delegation of tasks concerning the renewal of a trade mark (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 81(1)) (see paras 17-18)
      2.                     Community trade mark — Procedural provisions — Restitutio in integrum — Conditions — Vigilance required by circumstances —
            Exceptional, and thus unpredictable, events — Human error in recording information — Not included (Council Regulation No 207/2009,
            Art. 81(1)) (see paras 19, 28, 29)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 April 2010 (Case R 1048/2009-1) in so far as
                  it dismissed the application for restitutio in integrum.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Constellation Brands, Inc., to pay the costs.