Na opname in register
Gemeenschapsmerk. Overdracht van een merk tijdens de registratieprocedure. Afgewezen: overdracht heeft geen effect tegenover derde partijen, slechts na opname in het register.
Beroep ingesteld door de beweerde rechtverkrijgende van het gemeenschapswoordmerk „CRAIC” voor waren van de klassen 25, 32 en 33, en strekkende tot vernietiging van beslissing R 1888/2007-2 van de tweede kamer van beroep van het Bureau voor harmonisatie binnen de interne markt (BHIM) van 13 november 2008 houdende verwerping van het beroep tegen de weigering van de onderzoeker om de beslissing tot inschrijving van de overgang van dit merk op de andere partij in de procedure voor de kamer van beroep te herroepen.
36 Under Article 23 of Regulation No 40/94, a transfer of a Community trade mark is in principle to have effects vis-a-vis third parties only after entry in the register, save where third parties have acquired rights in the trade mark after the date of the transfer and they knew of that transfer at the date on which the rights were acquired. It follows that, in order to be able to assert his rights vis-à-vis third parties, the new proprietor after the transfer of the trade mark must register that transfer. In the absence of such registration, third parties having no knowledge of the transfer cannot have that transfer raised against them. In the present case, the applicant, as the alleged proprietor of the Community trade mark following the alleged earlier assignment, did not register the transfer of the Community trade mark in the register at OHIM. Moreover, there is no indication or claim that the intervener knew of the earlier assignment of the mark at issue to the applicant. In such a situation, the transfer of the Community trade mark to the applicant may not be raised against the intervener.
