CELEX: 62014TA0209
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-209/14: Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2015 — Bopp v OHIM (Representation of a green octagonal frame) (Community trade mark — Application for figurative Community mark representing a green octagonal frame — Absolute ground for refusal — Distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

23.11.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 389/47
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2015 — Bopp v OHIM (Representation of a green octagonal frame)
   (Case T-209/14) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Application for figurative Community mark representing a green octagonal frame - Absolute ground for refusal - Distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 389/51)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Carsten Bopp (Glashütten, Germany) (represented by: C. Russ, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented initially by: A. Pohlmann, and subsequently by: S. Hanne, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 January 2014 (Case R 1276/2013-1) concerning an application for registration of a figurative sign representing a green octagonal frame as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Carsten Bopp to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 151, 19.5.2014.