CELEX: 62010TJ0293
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-14
Title: Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 14 June 2012. # Seven Towns Ltd v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community mark representing seven squares of different colours - Sign of which a Community trade mark may consist - Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-293/10.

Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 14 June 2012 —Seven Towns v OHIM (Representation of seven squares of different colours)(Case T-293/10)
      Community trade mark — Application for Community mark representing seven squares of different colours — Sign of which a Community trade mark may consist — Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      1.                     Community trade mark — Registration procedure — Publication of the application — Measure not guaranteeing registration of
            the trade mark (Council Regulation 207/2009, Arts 37 and 39(2)) (see paras 33, 35, 36)
      2.                     Community trade mark — Appeals procedure — Decision on the appeal — Exercise by the Board of Appeal of the powers of the examiner —
            Obligation to respect the rights of the defence (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Arts 37(3), 64(1), and 75) (see paras 42,
            43)
      3.                     Community trade mark — Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark — Signs capable of constituting a mark — Colours
            or combinations of colours — Conditions (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 4) (see para. 50)
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 April 2010 (Case R 1475/2009-1), concerning
                  an application for registration of a sign representing seven squares of different colours as a Community mark.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action; 
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders each party to bear its own costs.