15In any event, it should be borne in mind in that regard that, even if certain decisions of national courts and extracts from academic writings are submitted by the applicant for the first time before the Court, the applicant is entitled to refer to them in so far as they are documents and arguments relating to national legislation and the national courts’ judicial practice. It is apparent from the case-law that neither the parties nor the Court itself can be precluded from drawing on national legislation, case-law or academic writing for the purposes of interpreting national law to which, as in the present case, EU law makes reference (see paragraph 19 below), where it is not alleged that the Board of Appeal failed to take the factual aspects of a specific national judgment into account, but rather reliance is placed on judgments or academic writing in support of a plea alleging that the Board of Appeal misapplied a provision of national law (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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