CELEX: 62013TA0710
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-710/13: Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2015 — Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel v OHIM — Tiertafel Deutschland (Tafel) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community word mark Tafel — Absolute grounds for refusal — Distinctive character — No descriptive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

3.11.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 363/35
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 18 September 2015 — Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel v OHIM — Tiertafel Deutschland (Tafel)
   (Case T-710/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community word mark Tafel - Absolute grounds for refusal - Distinctive character - No descriptive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 363/43)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel eV (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: T. Koerl, E. Celenk and S. Vollmer, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: initially A. Pohlmann, and subsequently M. Fischer, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Tiertafel Deutschland eV (Rathenow, Germany) (represented by: M. Nitschke, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 17 October 2013 (Case R 1074/2012-4) relating to invalidity proceedings between Tiertafel Deutschland eV and Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel eV.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 17 October 2013 (Case R 1074/2012-4);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel eV;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Tiertafel Deutschland eV to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 61, 1.3.2014.