CELEX: 62015TA0078
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-78/15: Judgment of the General Court of 17 March 2016 — Mudhook Marketing v OHIM (IPVanish) (Community trade mark — Application for Community word mark IPVanish — Absolute ground for refusal — No distinctive character Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

2.5.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 156/40
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 17 March 2016 — Mudhook Marketing v OHIM (IPVanish)
   (Case T-78/15) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark IPVanish - Absolute ground for refusal - No distinctive character Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 156/52)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Mudhook Marketing, Inc. (Winter Park, Florida, United States) (represented by: H. Eckermann and A. Dellmeier, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: L. Rampini, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 December 2014 (Case R 1417/2014-2), relating to an application for registration of the word sign IPVanish as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mudhook Marketing, Inc. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 127, 20.4.2015.