CELEX: 62013CB0070
Language: en
Date: 2013-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-70/13 P: Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 12 December 2013 — Getty Images (US) Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Appeal — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) — Absolute grounds for refusal — Lack of distinctiveness — Descriptive character — Word mark PHOTOS.COM — Partial refusal of registration — Equal treatment — Obligation for OHIM to take into account its prior decision-making practice — Appeal partly manifestly inadmissible and partly manifestly unfounded)

7.4.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 102/9
            
         Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 12 December 2013 — Getty Images (US) Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   (Case C-70/13 P) (1)
   
   ((Appeal - Community trade mark - Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) - Absolute grounds for refusal - Lack of distinctiveness - Descriptive character - Word mark PHOTOS.COM - Partial refusal of registration - Equal treatment - Obligation for OHIM to take into account its prior decision-making practice - Appeal partly manifestly inadmissible and partly manifestly unfounded))
   2014/C 102/11
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Getty Images (US) Inc. (represented by: P.G. Olson, advokat)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: V. Melgar, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 November 2012 in Case T-338/11 Getty Images v OHIM, by which the General Court dismissed an action for annulment of Decision R 1831/2010-2 of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) of 6 April 2011, rejecting the appeal brought against the examiner’s decision to partially refuse registration of the word mark ‘PHOTOS.COM’, for goods in classes 9, 42 and 45 — Article 7(1)(b) and (c), and Article 7(3) of Regulation No 207/2009 — Lack of distinctive character.
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               The appeal is dismissed.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Getty Images (US) Inc. is ordered to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 101, 6.4.2013.