CELEX: 62011TA0598
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-598/11: Judgment of the General Court of 12 June 2013 — MPDV Mikrolab v OHIM (Lean Performance Index) (Community Trade mark — Application for Community word mark Lean Performance Index — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

3.8.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 225/73
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 June 2013 — MPDV Mikrolab v OHIM (Lean Performance Index)
   (Case T-598/11) (1)
   
   (Community Trade mark - Application for Community word mark Lean Performance Index - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Lack of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2013/C 225/162
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: MPDV Mikrolab GmbH, Mikroprozessordatenverarbeitung und Mikroprozessorlabor (Mosbach, Germany) (represented by: W. Göpfert, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (represented by: G. Marten and R. Pethke, Agents)
   
      Objet
   
   Appeal against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 15 September 2011 (Case R 131/2011-1) concerning an application for registration of the word mark Lean Performance Index as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders MPDV Mikrolab GmbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 32, 4.2.2012.