CELEX: 62011TJ0242
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 29 March 2012. # Kaltenbach & Voigt GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - International registration - Request for territorial extension of protection - Figurative mark 3D eXam - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character and lack of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-242/11.

Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 29 March 2012 — Kaltenbach & Voigt v OHIM (3D eXam)
      (Case T-242/11)
      Community trade mark — International registration — Request for territorial extension of protection — Figurative mark 3D eXam — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character and lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      Community trade mark — Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark — Absolute grounds for refusal — Marks composed exclusively of signs or indications which may serve to designate the characteristics of goods (Council Regulation
         No 207/2009, Art. 7(1)(c)) (see paras 24-26, 28-31)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 1 March 2011 (Case R 2361/2010-2) relating to
                  a territorial extension to the European Union of the protection of the international registration of the figurative mark 3D
                  eXam.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Kaltenbach & Voigt GmbH to pay the costs.