CELEX: 62019TA0332
Language: en
Date: 2020-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-332/19: Judgment of the General Court of 5 February 2020 — Pierre Balmain v EUIPO (Representation of a lion’s head encircled by rings forming a chain) (EU trade mark — Application for an EU figurative mark representing a lion’s head encircled by rings forming a chain — Absolute ground for refusal — No distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

23.3.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 95/31
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 5 February 2020 — Pierre Balmain v EUIPO (Representation of a lion’s head encircled by rings forming a chain)
      (Case T-332/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Application for an EU figurative mark representing a lion’s head encircled by rings forming a chain - Absolute ground for refusal - No distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2020/C 95/39)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Pierre Balmain (Paris, France) (represented by: J.M. Iglesias Monravá and S. Mainar Roger, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: V. Ruzek, acting as Agent)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 21 March 2019 (Case R 1224/2018-5), concerning an application for registration of a figurative sign representing a lion’s head encircled by rings forming a chain as an EU trade mark.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Pierre Balmain to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 246, 22.7.2019.