Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 27 November 2003 in Case T-348/02: Quick restaurants SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Community trade mark — Trade mark consisting of the word Quick — Absolute ground for refusal — Descriptive character — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Registration refused in part)
Date: 2004-01-24
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment (EU), catering industry, foodstuff, prepared foodstuff, trade-mark law

C 21/34

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

24.1.2004

1. Dismisses the application;

ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

2. Orders the applicant to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 289 of 23.11.2002.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 27 November 2003

in Case T-348/02: Quick restaurants SA v Office for
Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and
Designs) (OHIM)1 (1)

(Community trade mark — Trade mark consisting of the
word Quick — Absolute ground for refusal — Descriptive
character — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 —
Registration refused in part)

(2004/C 21/72)

(Language of the case: French)

In Case T-348/02, Quick restaurants SA, established in Brussels
lawyer, with an
(Belgium), represented by L. Van Bunnen,
address for service in Luxembourg, v Office for Harmonisation
in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)
(Agents: A. Rassat and S. Laitinen): Action for partial annul-
ment of the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the
Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks
and Designs) of 17 September 2002 (Case R 1117/2000-2)
concerning registration of the word Quick as a Community
trade mark, the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber),
composed of: V. Tiili, President, P. Mengozzi and M. Vilaras,
Judges; B. Pastor, Deputy Registrar, has given a judgment on
27 November 2003, in which it:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the applicant to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 31 of 8.2.2003.

of 15 October 2003

in Case T-372/02: Internationaler Hilfsfonds eV v Com-
mission of the European Communities (1)

(Development
cooperation — European Community
Humanitarian Office — Framework partnership agreement
for the co-financing of operations carried out by NGOs —
Rejection of an application — Action for annulment —
Inadmissible)

(2004/C 21/73)

(Language of the case: English)

In Case T-372/02, Internationaler Hilfsfonds eV, established in
Rosbach (Germany), represented by H. Kaltenecker, lawyer, v
Commission of the European Communities (Agents: M. Wil-
derspin and S. Fries): Application for (i) annulment of the
Commission’s decision of 22 October 2002 rejecting the
application by the applicant to sign a framework partnership
agreement with the European Community Humanitarian
Office (ECHO), (ii) an order requiring the Commission either
to reinstate the applicant in the position it had in 1996 when
it applied to sign a framework partnership agreement or,
alternatively, to invite it to sign the framework partnership
agreement now in force and (iii) an order requiring the
Commission to reimburse to the applicant the costs relating to
its complaint to the European Ombudsman, the Court of First
Instance (Fifth Chamber), composed of: P. Lindh, President,
R. García-Valdecasas and J. D. Cooke, Judges; H. Jung, Registrar,
has made an order on 15 October 2003, the operative part of
which is as follows:

1.

2.

The application is dismissed as inadmissible in its entirety.

The applicant shall bear its own costs and those incurred by the
Commission.

(1) OJ C 31 of 8.2.2003.