26Annexes 13 and 19 to the application, although produced for the first time before the Court, are not strictly evidence but relate to OHIM’s usual practice in reaching decisions and to the case-law of the EU judicature to which a party has the right to refer, even after the procedure before OHIM is complete (see, to that effect, judgment in ARTHUR ET FELICIE, cited in paragraph 25 above, EU:T:2005:420, paragraph 20, and judgment of 8 December 2005 in Castellblanch v OHIM — Champagne Roederer (CRISTAL CASTELLBLANCH), T‑29/04, ECR, EU:T:2005:438, paragraph 16). Neither the parties nor the Court itself can be precluded from drawing on EU, national or international case-law for the purposes of interpreting EU law. That possibility of referring to EU, national or international judgments is not covered by the case-law holding that the purpose of bringing an action before the Court is to secure review of the legality of the decisions of the Boards of Appeal in the light of the evidence presented by the parties before them, since it is not alleged that the Board of Appeal failed to take into account the facts of a specific judgment handed down by the EU judicature or by a specific national or international court, but rather reliance is placed on judgments in support of a plea alleging that the Board of Appeal infringed a provision of Regulation No 207/2009 (see, to that effect, judgment of 12 July 2006 in Vitakraft-Werke Wührmann v OHIM — Johnson’s Veterinary Products (VITACOAT), T‑277/04, ECR, EU:T:2006:202, paragraphs 70 and 71).
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