Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 12 May 2011.#Jager & Polacek GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).#Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community word mark REDTUBE - Earlier unregistered national mark Redtube - Failure to pay the opposition fee within the prescribed period - Decision deeming the opposition non-existent - Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 - Protection of legitimate expectations - Rule 17 of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 - Ex parte proceedings - Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 216/96 - Rule 18 of Regulation No 2868/95 - Legal nature of a communication from OHIM informing a party that an opposition has been found to be admissible - Rule of parallelism of procedural requirements and of the actus contrarius - Article 80 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009.#Case T-488/09.

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