CELEX: 62009TN0161
Language: en
Date: 2009-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-161/09: Action brought on 21 April 2009 — Ilink Kommunikationssysteme v OHIM (ilink)

4.7.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 153/44
            
         Action brought on 21 April 2009 — Ilink Kommunikationssysteme v OHIM (ilink)
   (Case T-161/09)
   2009/C 153/87
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Ilink Kommunikationssysteme GmbH (Berlin, Germany) (represented by B. Schütze, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annul the contested decision of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market of 5 February 2009 in Case R 1849/2007-4; and
            
         
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               order the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Word mark ‘ilink’ for goods and services in Classes 9, 16, 38 and 42
   
      Decision of the Examiner: Registration refused in part
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (1)), since the trade mark applied for has the requisite distinctive character and there is no need for it to be allowed to remain available.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1).