CELEX: 62010TN0531
Language: en
Date: 2010-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-531/10: Action brought on 22 November 2010 — Häfele v OHIM (Vorfront)

29.1.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 30/43
            
         Action brought on 22 November 2010 — Häfele v OHIM (Vorfront)
   (Case T-531/10)
   ()
   2011/C 30/78
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Häfele GmbH & Co. KG (Nagold, Germany) (represented by M. Eck and J. Dönch, 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 First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 14 September 2010 in Case R 570/2010-1;
            
         
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               Order the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Community trade mark concerned: the word mark ‘Vorfront’ for goods in Classes 6, 7, 19 and 20.
   
      Decision of the Examiner: refusal to register
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: dismissal of the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (1), as the Community trade mark in question has distinctive character and is not purely descriptive
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1).