CELEX: 62018TA0102
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-102/18: Judgment of the General Court of 13 December 2018 — Knauf v EUIPO (upgrade your personality) (EU trade mark — Application for EU word mark upgrade your personality — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Advertising slogan — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

4.3.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 82/56
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 13 December 2018 — Knauf v EUIPO (upgrade your personality)
      (Case T-102/18) (1)
      
      ((EU trade mark - Application for EU word mark upgrade your personality - Absolute ground for refusal - Lack of distinctive character - Advertising slogan - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))
      (2019/C 82/68)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Martin Knauf (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: H. Jaeger, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: R. Manea and A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 18 December 2017 (Case R 1011/2017–4) concerning an application for registration of the word sign upgrade your personality as an EU trade mark.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Martin Knauf to bear his own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 134, 16.4.2018.