CELEX: 62015TA0699
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-699/15: Judgment of the General Court of 21 June 2017 — City Train v EUIPO (CityTrain) (EU trade mark — Application for EU figurative mark CityTrain — Procedural time limit — Unforeseeable circumstances — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character — Lack of distinctiveness — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

7.8.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 256/21
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 21 June 2017 — City Train v EUIPO (CityTrain)
   (Case T-699/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Application for EU figurative mark CityTrain - Procedural time limit - Unforeseeable circumstances - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Lack of distinctiveness - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 256/22)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: City Train GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) (represented by: C. Adori, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: H. Kunz, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 9 September 2015 (Case R 843/2015-4) concerning an application for registration of figurative sign CityTrain as an EU trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders City Train GmbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 111, 29.3.2016.