CELEX: 62010CA0426
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-426/10 P: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 22 September 2011 — Bell & Ross BV v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Klockgrossisten i Norden AB (Appeal — Signed original application lodged out of time — Regularisable defect)

12.11.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 331/6
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 22 September 2011 — Bell & Ross BV v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), Klockgrossisten i Norden AB
   (Case C-426/10 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Signed original application lodged out of time - Regularisable defect)
   2011/C 331/08
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Bell & Ross BV (represented by: S. Guerlain, avocat)
   
      Other parties to the proceedings: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, Agent), Klockgrossisten i Norden AB
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal against the order of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) delivered on 18 June 2010 in Case T-51/10 Bell & Ross v OHIM — Klockgrossisten i Norden, whereby the General Court dismissed the action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM of 27 October 2009 (Case R 1267/2008-3) in invalidity proceedings between Klockgrossisten i Norden AB and Bell & Ross BV — Signed original application lodged out of time — Concepts of ‘excusable error’ and ‘unforeseeable circumstances’ — Principles of legitimate expectations and proportionality — Manifest inadmissibility
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Bell & Ross BV to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 346, 18.12.2010.