23Also — contrary to the assertions made by the applicant — it is understandable, from a commercial point of view, that the intervener wished to extend the protection of the mark at issue by registering it as a Community trade mark. During the period which preceded the filing of the application for registration, the number of Member States in which the intervener generated turnover from goods marketed under the mark BIGAB increased. As the Board of Appeal rightly found in paragraph 32 of the contested decision, that was a plausible incentive for filing an application for the registration of a Community trade mark.
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