Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 June 2001 in Joined Cases T-357/99 and T-358/99 Telefon & Buch VerlagsgmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Community trade mark — Word marks UNIVERSALTELEFONBUCH and UNIVERSALKOMMUNIKATIONSVERZEICHNIS — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
Date: 2001-09-15
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: Austria, EU office or agency, EU trade mark, action for annulment (EU), domestic market, services company

15.9.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 259/9

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 14 June 2001

of 7 June 2001

in Joined Cases T-357/99 and T-358/99 Telefon & Buch
VerlagsgmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal
Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (1)

in Case T-359/99, Deutsche Krankenversicherung AG
(DKV) v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (1)

(Community trade mark — Word marks UNIVERSALTELE-
FONBUCH and UNIVERSALKOMMUNIKATIONSVERZ-
EICHNIS — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive
character — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(Community trade mark — Word mark ‘EuroHealth’ —
Absolute ground for refusal — Article (7)(1)(b) and (c) of
Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(2001/C 259/13)

(Language of the case: German)

In Joined Cases T-357/99 and T-358/99 Telefon & Buch
VerlagsgmbH, established in Salzburg (Austria), represented by
H.G. Zeiner and B. Heaman-Dunn, lawyers, with an address
for service in Luxembourg, against Office for Harmonisation
in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)
(Agents: S. Bonne, A. von Mühlendahl and E.
Joly) —
application for annulment of two decisions of the Third Board
of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal
Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 21 October 1999 in
Cases R 351/1999-3 and R 352/1999-3 refusing registration
of the words UNIVERSALTELEFONBUCH and UNIVERSAL-
KOMMUNIKATIONSVERZEICHNIS as Community trade
marks — the Court of First
Instance (Fourth Chamber),
composed of P. Mengozzi, President, V. Tiili and R.M. Moura
Ramos, Judges; J. Palacio Gonza´lez, Administrator, for the
Registrar, has given a judgment on 14 June 2001, in which it:

1. Dismisses the applications;

2. Orders the applicant to pay the costs.

(2001/C 259/14)

(Language of the case: German)

In Case T-359/99, Deutsche Krankenversicherung AG (DKV),
established in Cologne (Germany), represented by S. von
Petersdorff-Campen,
lawyer, with an address for service in
Luxembourg, against Office for Harmonisation in the Internal
Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: D. Schen-
nen and S. Bonne) — action brought against the decision of
the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in
the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 15 October
1999 (Case R 19/1999-1), concerning the registration of the
word mark ‘EuroHealth’ as a Community trade mark — the
Instance (Second Chamber), composed of
Court of First
A.W.H. Meij, President, A. Potocki and J. Pirrung, Judges;
J. Palacio Gonza´lez, Administrator, for the Registrar, has given
a judgment on 7 June 2001, in which it:

1. Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office
for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
Designs) of 15 October 1999 (Case R 19/1999-1) in so far
as it concerns services falling within the category of ‘financial
affairs’;

2. Dismisses the remainder of the appeal;

3. Orders the parties to bear their own costs.

(1) OJ C 102 of 8.4.00.

(1) OJ C 79 of 18.3.00.