CELEX: 62018TA0752
Language: en
Date: 2020-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-752/18: Judgment of the General Court of 26 March 2020 — Tecnodidattica v EUIPO (Shape of bases for globes and lamps) (EU trade mark — Application for a three-dimensional EU trade mark — Shape of bases for globes and lamps — Absolute ground for refusal — Sign consisting exclusively of the shape of goods which is necessary to obtain a technical result — Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) — No decorative or imaginative elements playing an important or essential role)

22.6.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/24
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 26 March 2020 — Tecnodidattica v EUIPO (Shape of bases for globes and lamps)
      (Case T-752/18) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Application for a three-dimensional EU trade mark - Shape of bases for globes and lamps - Absolute ground for refusal - Sign consisting exclusively of the shape of goods which is necessary to obtain a technical result - Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001) - No decorative or imaginative elements playing an important or essential role)
      (2020/C 209/31)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Tecnodidattica SpA (San Colombano Certenoli, Italy) (represented by: S. Corona and F. Corona, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: L. Rampini, acting as Agent)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 9 October 2018 (Case R 76/2017-2), concerning an application for registration of a three-dimensional sign consisting of the shape of bases for globes and lamps as an EU trade mark.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Tecnodidattica SpA to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 72, 25.2.2019.