CELEX: C2004/284/06
Language: en
Date: 2004-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 23 September 2004 in Case C-107/03 P: Procter & Gamble Company v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Appeal — Community trade mark — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Three-dimensional soap-bar shape — Absolute ground for refusal to register — Distinctiveness)

20.11.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 284/3
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 23 September 2004
   in Case C-107/03 P: Procter & Gamble Company v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Community trade mark - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Three-dimensional soap-bar shape - Absolute ground for refusal to register - Distinctiveness)
   (2004/C 284/06)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case C-107/03 P: appeal brought on 27 February 2003 under Article 56 of the Statute of the Court of Justice by Procter & Gamble Company, established in Cincinnati (United States), (lawyer: T. van Innis) the other party to the proceedings being the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: O. Montalto and I. de Medrano Caballero) — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of: C.W.A. Timmermanns, President of the Chamber, C. Gulmann, J.-P. Puissochet, J.N. Cunha Rodrigues and F. Macken (Rapporteur), Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, gave a judgment on 23 September 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Procter & Gamble Company to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 146 of 21 June 2003.