Order of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 5 February 2004 in Case C-326/01: Telefon & Buch VerlagsgmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
Date: 2004-04-17
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, General Court (EU), action for annulment (EU), services company, trade-mark law

17.4.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 94/11

ORDER OF THE COURT

1. The appeal is dismissed;

(Fourth Chamber)

(1) OJ 2001 C 317.

2. Telefon & Buch VerlagsgmbH shall pay the costs.

of 5 February 2004

in Case C-326/01: Telefon & Buch VerlagsgmbH v Office
for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks
and Designs) (1)

(Appeal — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No
to register —
40/94 — Absolute ground for refusal
Distinctive character — Marks consisting exclusively of
descriptive signs or indications — Word marks ‘Universal-
telefonbuch’ and ‘Universalkommunikationsverzeichnis’)

ORDER OF THE COURT

(Fourth Chamber)

of 27 January 2004

(2004/C 94/20)

(Language of the case: German)

in Case C-428/01 (reference for a preliminary ruling from
the Tribunale di Catania): Fratelli Costanzo SpA v Elettrica
SpA (1)

(Article 104(3) of the Rules of Procedure — Questions
identical to questions on which the Court has already
ruled)

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published in
the European Court Reports)

and

In Case C-326/01 P: Telefon & Buch VerlagsgmbH (Lawyer:
H.G. Zeiner), with an address for service in Luxembourg —
Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of
the European Communities (Fourth Chamber) of 14 June 2001
in Joined Cases T-357/99 and T-358/99 Telefon & Buch v OHIM
(Universaltelefonbuch
Universalkommunikationsverzeichnis)
[2001] ECR II-1705, by which the Court of First Instance
dismissed the actions brought against 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
‘Universaltelefonbuch’ and
refusing to register
‘Universalkommunikationsverzeichnis’
trade
marks (Cases R 351/1999-3 and R 352/1999-3), seeking to
have that judgment set aside, the other party to the proceedings
being: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade
Marks and Designs) (Agents: E. Joly and S. Bonne) – the Court
(Fourth Chamber), composed of J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, Presi-
dent of the Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet (Judge-Rapporteur) and F.
Macken, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; R.
Grass, Registrar, made an order on 5 February 2004, the opera-
tive part of which is as follows:

as Community

the words

(2004/C 94/21)

(Language of the case: Italian)

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published in
the European Court Reports)

In Case C-428/01: reference to the Court under Article 234 EC
from the Tribunale di Catania (Italy) for a preliminary ruling in
the proceedings pending before that court between Fratelli
Costanzo SpA and Elettrica SpA — on the interpretation of
Article 87 EC and 88 EC — the Court (Fourth Chamber),
composed of: J. N. Cunha Rodrigues, President of the Chamber,
J.-P. Puissochet and K. Lenaerts (Rapporteur), Judges; D. Ruiz-
Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has
made an order on 27 January 2004, the operative part of
which is as follows: