CELEX: 62011CO0307
Language: en
Date: 2012-04-26 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 26 April 2012. # Deichmann SE v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Appeal - Community trade mark - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 7(1)(b) - Absolute ground for refusal - Lack of distinctive character - Figurative sign representing a chevron edged with dotted lines. # Case C-307/11 P.

Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 26 April 2012 —Deichmann v OHIM(Case C-307/11 P)
      Appeal — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 7(1)(b) — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Figurative sign representing a chevron edged with dotted lines
      1.                     Community trade mark — Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark — Absolute grounds for refusal — Overlapping
            ambits of the grounds set out in Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation No 40/94 (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 7(1)(b)
            and (c)) (see paras 46-48)
      2.                     Appeals — Grounds — Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence — Inadmissibility — Review by the Court of the assessment
            of the facts and evidence — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute
            of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see para. 58)
      3.                     Appeals — Grounds — Plea submitted for the first time in the context of the appeal — Inadmissibility (see para. 65)
      Re: 
      
         Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 13 April 2011 in Case T‑202/09 
               Deichmann SE
                v 
               OHIM
               , by which that court dismissed the action for annulment of the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 3 April
                  2009 dismissing the appeal against the examiner’s decision, which refused registration of the figurative sign representing
                  a chevron edged with dotted lines as a Community trade mark for certain goods in Classes 10 and 25 — Distinctive character
                  of the mark.
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
         
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                  	Deichmann SE is ordered to pay the costs.