CELEX: 62009TJ0271
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-15
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 15 September 2011. # Romuald Prinz Sobieski zu Schwarzenberg v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark Romuald Prinz Sobieski zu Schwarzenberg - Earlier national word mark JAN III SOBIESKI and earlier national figurative mark JAN III Sobieski - Failure to comply with the obligation to pay the application fee or to do so by bank transfer within the period prescribed - Decision of the Board of Appeal declaring the action to be unfounded - Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 - Application for restitutio in integrum - Lack of exceptional or unforeseeable circumstances - Article 81 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-271/09.

Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 15 September 2011 – Prinz Sobieski zu Schwarzenberg v OHIM – British-American
            Tobacco Polska (Romuald Prinz Sobieski zu Schwarzenberg)
      (Case T-271/09)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for Community word mark Romuald Prinz Sobieski zu Schwarzenberg – Earlier national word mark JAN III SOBIESKI and earlier national figurative mark JAN III Sobieski – Failure to comply with the obligation to pay the application fee or to do so by bank transfer within the period prescribed
         – Decision of the Board of Appeal declaring the action to be unfounded – Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 – Application for restitutio in integrum – Lack of exceptional or unforeseeable circumstances – Article 81 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      
      1.                     Community trade mark – Appeals procedure – Time-limit and form of appeal – Payment of the application fee after the deadline
            (Commission Regulation No 2869/95, Art. 8(3)) (see paras 37-43)
      2.                     Community trade mark – Procedural provisions – Restitutio in integrum – Conditions – Vigilance required by the circumstances
            – Exceptional, and thus unforeseeable, events – Concept (Council Regulation No 207/09, Art. 81(1)) (see paras 53-54, 60-62)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 13 May 2009 (Case R 771/2008-4), relating to
                  opposition proceedings between British-American Tobacco Polska S.A. and Romuald Sobieski zu Schwarzenberg.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Romuald Prinz Sobieski zu Schwarzenberg to pay the costs.