Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 7.2.2009 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 32/26 |

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Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 December 2008 — JTEKT v OHIM (IFS)

(Case T-462/05)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2009032EN.01002601-E0001)

(Community trade mark - Application for a Community word mark IFS - Absolute grounds for refusal - Not descriptive - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(2009/C 32/47)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: JTEKT Corp., formerly Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha (Aichi-ken, Japan) (represented by: initially by J. Wachinger and M. Zöbisch, and subsequently by M. De Zorti, M. Koch and T. Grimm, lawyers)

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

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 September 2005 (Case R 1157/2004-1) concerning an application to register the word mark IFS as a Community trade mark.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 14 September 2005 (Case R 1157/2004-1); |

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| 2. | Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by JTEKT Corp. |

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