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# 62000A0118

**Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 19 September 2001. - Procter & Gamble Company v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). - Community trade mark - Shape of a product for washing machines or dishwashers - Three-dimensional mark - Absolute ground for refusal - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94. - Case T-118/00.** 
  
*European Court reports 2001 Page II-02731*

  

[Parties](#I1)  
[Grounds](#MO)  
[Decision on costs](#CO)  
[Operative part](#DI)

## Parties

  
*In Case T-118/00,

Procter & Gamble Company, established in Cincinnati, Ohio (United States of America), represented by C.J.J.C. van Nispen and G. Kuipers, lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg,

applicant,

v

Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), represented by A. von Mühlendahl, D. Schennen and C. Røhl Søberg, acting as Agents,

defendant,

APPLICATION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 3 March 2000 (Case R-516/1999-1), which was notified to the applicant on 7 March 2000,

THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

(Second Chamber),

composed of: A.W.H. Meij, President, A. Potocki and J. Pirrung, Judges,

Registrar: D. Christensen, Administrator,

having regard to the application lodged at the Court Registry on 3 May 2000,

having regard to the response lodged at the Court Registry on 28 July 2000,

further to the hearing on 5 April 2001,

gives the following

Judgment*

## Grounds

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