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DEF-TEC Defense Technology GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market, Defense Technology Corporation of America, Case T-6/05, Court of First Instance of the European Communities (CFI), 6 September 2006
Where the previous owner of a company gives a third party the authority to register trade marks abroad in its own name, that authority remains an effective basis upon which to apply for a Community trade mark even where events subsequent to the giving of the authority would appear to be of contrary effect.