CELEX: 62013TA0379
Language: en
Date: 2015-02-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-379/13: Judgment of the General Court of 10 February 2015  — Innovation First v OHIM (NANO) (Community trade mark — Application for Community word mark NANO — Right to be heard — Obligation to state reasons — Examination of the facts of the Office’s own motion — Absolute ground for refusal — Descriptiveness — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

23.3.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 96/16
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 10 February 2015 — Innovation First v OHIM (NANO)
   (Case T-379/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark NANO - Right to be heard - Obligation to state reasons - Examination of the facts of the Office’s own motion - Absolute ground for refusal - Descriptiveness - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 096/20)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Innovation First, Inc. (Greenville, South Carolina, United States) (represented by: J. Zecher, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Poch, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 19 April 2013 (Case R 1271/2012-1), relating to an application for registration of the word sign NANO as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Innovation First, Inc. to bear the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 260, 7.9.2013.