CELEX: 62010TJ0416
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-08
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 8 May 2012. # Yoshida Metal Industry Co. Ltd v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Figurative Community trade mark representing a surface with black dots - Shape of goods which is necessary to obtain a technical result - Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-416/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 8 May 2012 —Yoshida Metal Industry v OHIM — Pi‑Design and Others (Representation of a surface with black dots)(Case T‑416/10)
      Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Figurative Community trade mark representing a surface with black dots — Shape of goods which is necessary to obtain a technical result — Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      Community trade mark — Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark — Absolute grounds for refusal — Signs constituted solely by the shape of goods which is necessary to obtain a technical result — Definition (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 7(1)(e), (ii)) (see paras 26-28)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 20 May 2010 (Case R 1237/2008‑1), relating to
                  invalidity proceedings between Pi-Design AG, Bodum France and Bodum Logistics A/S, of the one part, and Yoshida Metal Industry
                  Co. Ltd, of the other.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
                     (OHIM) of 20 May 2010 (Case R 1237/2008‑1);
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay the costs of Yoshida Metal Industry Co. Ltd;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Pi-Design AG, Bodum France and Bodum Logistics A/S to bear their own respective costs.