CELEX: 62010TJ0275
Language: en
Date: 2011-11-22
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 22 November 2011. # mPAY24 GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community word mark MPAY24 - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Correction of the decision by the Board of Appeal - Non-existent act - Rule 53 of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95. # Case T-275/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 22 November 2011 – mPAY24 v OHIM – Ultra (MPAY24)
      (Case T-275/10)
      Community trade mark – Invalidity proceedings – Community word mark MPAY24 – Absolute grounds for refusal – Descriptive character – Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – Correction of the decision by the Board of Appeal – Non-existent act – Rule 53 of Regulation (EC) No 2868/95
      Community trade mark – Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark – Absolute grounds for refusal – Marks composed exclusively of signs or indications which may serve to designate the characteristics of goods (Council Regulation
         No 207/2009, Art. 7(1)(c)) (see paras 42, 50-51, 58-60)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 22 March 2010 (Case R 1102/2008‑1) concerning
                  invalidity proceedings between Ultra d.o.o. Proizvodnja elektronskih naprav and mPAY24 GmbH.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
                     (OHIM) of 22 March 2010 (Case R 1102/2008‑1);
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders OHIM to pay the costs.