CELEX: 62008TN0555
Language: en
Date: 2008-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-555/08: Action brought on 16 December 2008 — iPublish Ganske Interactive Publishing v OHIM (representation of a navigational device)

7.3.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 55/35
            
         Action brought on 16 December 2008 — iPublish Ganske Interactive Publishing v OHIM (representation of a navigational device)
   (Case T-555/08)
   (2009/C 55/63)
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: iPublish Ganske Interactive Publishing GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by V. Knies, lawyer)
   
      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 3 October 2008 in Case R 709/2008-4 and
            
         
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               order OHIM to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Three-dimensional trade mark representing a navigational device in the colours black and blue, characterised inter alia by a blue lateral stripe, for goods and services in Classes 9, 39 and 42 (application No 6 092 639).
   
      Decision of the Examiner: Registration 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), since the trade mark applied for has the required distinctive character.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1).