CELEX: 62010TJ0123
Community trade mark
Application for Community word mark "Complete"
Absolute grounds for refusal
Lack of distinctive character
Descriptive character
Statement of reasons
Goods forming a homogenous group
Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009

ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 20 January 2010 (Case R 601/2009-4) concerning
an application to register the word mark “Complete” as a Community trade mark.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
Designs) (OHIM) of 20 January 2010 (Case R 601/2009-4);
2.
Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Paul Hartmann AG, including the indispensable costs incurred
by the latter in the procedure before the Board of Appeal.