CELEX: 62011TA0570
Language: en
Date: 2014-02-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-570/11: Judgment of the General Court of 12 February 2014 — Oetker Nahrungsmittel v OHIM (La qualité est la meilleure des recettes) (Community trade mark — Application for Community word mark La qualité est la meilleure des recettes — Mark constituted by an advertising slogan — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctiveness — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

29.3.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 93/22
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 February 2014 — Oetker Nahrungsmittel v OHIM (La qualité est la meilleure des recettes)
   (Case T-570/11) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark La qualité est la meilleure des recettes - Mark constituted by an advertising slogan - Absolute ground for refusal - Lack of distinctiveness - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2014/C 93/36
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Dr. August Oetker Nahrungsmittel KG (Bielefeld, Germany) (represented by: F. Graf von Stosch, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: K. Klüpfel and A. Schifko, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Grand Board of Appeal of OHIM of 8 July 2011 (Case R 1798/2010-G) concerning an application for registration of word sign La qualité est la meilleure des recettes as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Dr. August Oetker Nahrungsmittel KG to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 13, 14.1.2012.