CELEX: 62006TA0234
Language: en
Date: 2009-11-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-234/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 19 November 2009 — Torresan v OHIM — Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe (CANNABIS) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community word mark CANNABIS — Absolute ground for refusal — Descriptive character — Articles 7(1)(c) and 51(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Articles 7(1)(c) and 52(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

16.1.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 11/22
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 19 November 2009 — Torresan v OHIM — Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe (CANNABIS)
   (Case T-234/06) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community word mark CANNABIS - Absolute ground for refusal - Descriptive character - Articles 7(1)(c) and 51(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Articles 7(1)(c) and 52(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   2010/C 11/40
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Giampietro Torresan (Rothenburg, Switzerland) (represented by: G. Recher, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Bullock and O. Montalto, agents)
   
      Other party/parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe GmbH & Co. KG (Weissonohe, Germany) (represented by: A. Masetti Zannini de Concina, M. Bucarelli and R. Cartella, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 June 2006 (Case R 517/2005-2) relating to invalidity proceedings between Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe GmbH & Co. KG and Giampietro Torresan.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Giampietro Torresan to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 261, 28.10.2006.