CELEX: 62009TN0013
Language: en
Date: 2009-01-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-13/09: Action brought on 15 January 2009 — Storck v OHIM (Mouse-shaped chocolate)

21.3.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 69/47
            
         Action brought on 15 January 2009 — Storck v OHIM (Mouse-shaped chocolate)
   (Case T-13/09)
   (2009/C 69/103)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: August Storck KG (Berlin, Germany) (represented by P. Goldenbaum, T. Melchert and I. Rohr, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   Form of order sought
   
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               Annul the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market of 12 November 2008 (R 185/2006-4); and
            
         
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               Order the defendant to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Community trade mark concerned: a three-dimensional mark, which represents a mouse made out of chocolate, for goods in Class 30 (Application No 4 490 447).
   
      Decision of the Examiner: Application refused.
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed.
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (1), in that the trade mark applied for has the necessary distinctive character.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1).