CELEX: 62009CB0078
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-78/09 P: Order of the Court (Eight Chamber) of 24 September 2009 — Compagnie des bateaux mouches SA v Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs), Jean-Noël Castanet (Appeal — Community trade mark — Word mark BATEAUX MOUCHES — Refusal of registration — Absence of any distinctive character)

30.1.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/18
            
         Order of the Court (Eight Chamber) of 24 September 2009 — Compagnie des bateaux mouches SA v Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs), Jean-Noël Castanet
   (Case C-78/09 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Community trade mark - Word mark BATEAUX MOUCHES - Refusal of registration - Absence of any distinctive character)
   2010/C 24/29
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Compagnie des bateaux mouches SA (represented by: G. Barbaut, avocat)
   
      Other parties to the proceedings: Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs), (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent), Jean-Noël Castanet (represented by: J.-P. Sulzer, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 10 December 2008 in Case T-365/06 Bateaux mouches v OHMI by which the Court dismissed the action brought by the applicant against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 7 September 2006, concerning proceedings for invalidity of the Community word mark ‘BATEAUX MOUCHES’ — Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1) — Misinterpretation of the criteria laid down by the case-law of the Court of Justice — Absence of any distinctive character
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Compagnie des bateaux mouches SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 102 of 01.05.2009