CELEX: C2007/283/40
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-442/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Patent- und Markensenat (Austria) lodged on 27 September 2007 — Verein Radetzky-Orden v Bundesvereinigung Kameradschaft Feldmarschall Radetzky

24.11.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 283/23
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Patent- und Markensenat (Austria) lodged on 27 September 2007 — Verein Radetzky-Orden v Bundesvereinigung Kameradschaft ‘Feldmarschall Radetzky’
   (Case C-442/07)
   (2007/C 283/40)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Oberster Patent — und Markensenat
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Verein Radetzky-Orden
   
      Defendant: Bundesvereinigung Kameradschaft ‘Feldmarschall Radetzky’.
   Question referred
   Is Article 12(1) of [First Council Directive 89/104/EEC of 21 December 1988 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks] to be construed as meaning that a trade mark is put to (genuine) use to distinguish goods and services of one undertaking from those of other undertakings in the case where a non-profit-making association uses the trade mark in announcements for events, on business papers and on advertising material and that trade mark is used by the association's members when collecting and distributing donations inasmuch as those members wear badges featuring that trade mark?