CELEX: 62013TA0593
Language: en
Date: 2015-01-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-593/13: Judgment of the General Court of 30 January 2015  — Siemag Tecberg Group v OHIM (Winder Controls) (Community trade mark — Application for Community word mark Winder Controls — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(c) and (b) and Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 135a of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court — Request for a hearing made prematurely in the application)

16.3.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 89/20
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 30 January 2015 — Siemag Tecberg Group v OHIM (Winder Controls)
   (Case T-593/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark Winder Controls - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Lack of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(c) and (b) and Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Article 135a of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court - Request for a hearing made prematurely in the application))
   (2015/C 089/22)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Siemag Tecberg Group GmbH (Haiger, Germany) (represented by: T. Sommer, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: D. Walicka, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 5 September 2013 (Case R 1261/2013-4), concerning an application for registration of the word sign Winder Controls as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Siemag Tecberg Group GmbH to bear its own expenses and to pay those incurred by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 31, 1.2.2014.