48Next, it can be seen from the letter of 17 March 2008 from the former proprietor to Mr S., Head of the intervener’s Executive Board — which, despite having been drafted after the application for registration of the mark at issue, offers some relevant evidence of the reasons which led the former proprietor to make that application — that the former proprietor’s purpose was to preserve the ‘marvellous’ SIMCA mark for posterity. In that same letter, the former proprietor also expressly referred to the ‘extraordinary history of the SIMCA mark’. Those statements must be read in conjunction with the introductory part of that letter, in which the former proprietor emphasises his knowledge of the automotive sector and his particular and lasting predilection for French cars, in particular the Peugeot or the Citroën. In that context, the former proprietor expressly mentioned having carried out searches both on the Internet and via OHIM in order to discover whether the SIMCA mark was still registered.
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