CELEX: C2006/281/74
Language: en
Date: 2006-11-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-269/06: Action brought on 21 September 2006 — Rautaruukki v OHIM (RAUTARUUKKI)

18.11.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 281/42
            
         Action brought on 21 September 2006 — Rautaruukki v OHIM (RAUTARUUKKI)
   (Case T-269/06)
   (2006/C 281/74)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Rautaruukki Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) (represented by: P. Hagman, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   Form of order sought
   The applicant requests that the Court of First Instance:
   
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               annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of July 21, 2006 and establishes that the applied Community Trademark application No 3 608 081 RAUTARUUKKI shall be considered distinctive and registrable, and remits the case to OHIM for registration purposes;
            
         
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               orders the defendant OHIM to pay the applicant's costs in these proceedings.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Word mark ‘RAUTARUUKKI’ for goods in among others class 6 — application No 3 608 081
   
      Decision of the examiner: Refusal of the application for the goods applied for in class 6
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(3) of Council Regulation No 40/94 since the trade mark ‘RAUTARUUKKI’ has become distinctive in respect of the goods applied for in class 6 after an extensive long-term use of the mark.