CELEX: 62011CO0453
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 14 May 2012. # Timehouse GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Appeal - Community trade mark - Three-dimensional mark representing a watch - Refusal of registration - Lack of distinctiveness. # Case C-453/11 P.

Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 14 May 2012 —Timehouse v OHIM(Case C‑453/11 P)
      Appeal — Community trade mark — Three-dimensional mark representing a watch — Refusal of registration — Lack of distinctiveness
      Community trade mark — Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark — Absolute grounds for refusal — Lack of distinctiveness — Trade mark made up of several elements — Possible for the competent authority to examine each of the elements making up the trade mark (Council Regulation No 207/2009,
         Art. 7(1)(b)) (see para. 40)
      
      Re: 
      
         Appeal lodged against the judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 6 July 2011 in Case T‑235/10 
               Timehouse
                v 
               OHIM (Shape of a watch with scalloped edges)
               , by which that court dismissed an action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 11 March 2010
                  (Case R 0942/2009‑1) concerning an application for registration as a Community trade mark of a three-dimensional sign consisting
                  of the shape of a watch — Lack of distinctiveness.
               
            Operative part
      
         
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                  	The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
         
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                  	Timehouse GmbH is ordered to pay the costs.