Judgment_paragraph 22 · Gérard Meric v Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (T-133/05)

22It must be borne in mind that the purpose of the action before the Court of First Instance is to obtain a review of the legality of the decision of the Board of Appeal (see, in this connection, Case T-237/01 Alcon v OHIM — Dr. Robert Winzer Pharma (BSS) [2003] ECR II-411, paragraph 61; Case T-128/01 DaimlerChrysler v OHIM (Grille) [2003] ECR II-701, paragraph 18; Case T-129/01 Alejandro v Anheuser-Busch (BUDMEN) [2003] ECR II-2251, paragraph 67; and Case T-311/01 Éditions Albert René v OHIM - TRUCCO (Starix) [2003] ECR II-4625, paragraph 70). Under Article 63 of Regulation No 40/94, the Court of First Instance has power to annul the contested decision ‘on grounds of lack of competence, infringement of an essential procedural requirement, infringement of the Treaty, of this Regulation or of any rule of law relating to their application or misuse of power’ in the context of Articles 229 EC and 230 EC. The Court of First Instance's review of the legality of a decision by a Board of Appeal must therefore be carried out with regard to the issues of law raised before the Board of Appeal (see Case T-373/03 Solo Italia v OHIM — Nuovo Sala (PARMITALIA) [2005] ECR II-1881, paragraph 25).

Gérard Meric v Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (T-133/05)

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