Case T‑541/11

(publication by extracts)

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

v

Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the Community word mark GULBENKIAN — Earlier well-known national mark, company name and national logos Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian — Relative grounds for refusal — Evidence of the existence of the earlier rights — Article 8(1)(b), (4) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 90(a) of the Rules of Procedure)

Summary — Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber), 26 June 2014

Procedure — Costs — Recoverable costs — Avoidable costs provoked by a party and incurred by the Court — Interpretation costs

(Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 90(a))

Article 90(a) of the Rules of Procedures provides that where a party has caused the General Court to incur avoidable costs, the General Court may order that party to refund them. In accordance with that provision, an intervener must be ordered to refund interpreting costs occasioned by his request to be allowed to plead in his language at the hearing, which he did not attend.

(see paras 49, 50)