Joined Cases T-405/07 and T-406/07: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 20 May 2009 — CFCMCEE v OHIM (P@YWEB CARD and PAYWEB CARD) (Community trade mark — Applications for Community word marks P@YWEB/email CARD and PAYWEB CARD — Absolute ground for refusal — Partial lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
Date: 2009-05-20
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, General Court (EU), banking, financial services, provision of services, trade-mark law








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4.7.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 153/37





Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 20 May 2009 — CFCMCEE v OHIM (P@YWEB CARD and PAYWEB CARD)
(Joined Cases T-405/07 and T-406/07) (1)

(Community trade mark - Applications for Community word marks P@YWEB/email CARD and PAYWEB CARD - Absolute ground for refusal - Partial lack of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
2009/C 153/70
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: Caisse fédérale du Crédit mutuel Centre Est Europe (CFCMCEE) (Strasbourg, France) (represented by: P. Greffe, J. Schouman and L. Paudrat, lawyers.)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, agent)

Re:

Actions brought against the decisions of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 10 July 2007 (Case R 119/2007-1) and 12 September 2007 (Case R 120/2007-1) concerning applications for registration of the word signs P@YWEB CARD and PAYWEB CARD as Community trade marks.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


annuls the decisions of the First Board of Appeal of Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 10 July 2007 (Case R 119/2007-1) and 12 September 2007 (Case R 120/2007-1) to the extent that they refuse the registration as Community trade marks of the word signs P@YWEB CARD and PAYWEB CARD for photographic, cinematographic, signalling, checking (supervision) apparatus and instruments; apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images; recording discs; electronic notebooks; automatic vending machines, video tapes. distributors of banknotes, slips, bank statements and extract bank statements, cameras (cinematographic apparatus) video cameras, video cassettes, CD-ROMS, bar code readers, compact discs (audio-video), optical compact discs, counterfeit money detectors, floppy discs, magnetic data carriers, optical data carriers, video screens, data processing apparatus, intercommunication apparatus, interfaces (IT), readers (IT), software (recorded programs), monitors (computer programs), computers, computer input and output devices, recorded computer programmes, recorded operating system programs (for computers), radiotelephones, receivers (audio, video), telephone apparatus, television apparatus, apparatus for time recording, transmitters (telecommunications), central processing units (processors) within Class 9 and certain information (news) services inter alia in the banking sector, radiotelephonic communications, telephone communications, sending of telegrams, transmission of telegrams, broadcasting of television programmes, radiotelephonic transmissions, television transmissions, renting of telecommunication apparatus, renting of apparatus for transmission of messages, rental of telephones, mobile radiotelephony, telephone services within Class 38 of the Nice Agreement concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of 15 June 1957, as revised and amended;










2.


dismisses the action as to the remainder;










3.


orders the Caisse fédérale du Crédit mutuel Centre Est Europe (CFCMCEE) and OHIM to bear their own costs.






(1)  OJ C 8, 12.1.2008.