CELEX: 62013TA0131
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-131/13: Judgment of the General Court of 14 March 2014  — Lardini v OHIM (Affixing of a flower to a collar) (Community trade mark  — Application for a Community trade mark consisting in the affixing of a flower to a collar  — Absolute ground for refusal  — No distinctive character  — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

5.5.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 135/33
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 March 2014 — Lardini v OHIM (Affixing of a flower to a collar)
   (Case T-131/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Application for a Community trade mark consisting in the affixing of a flower to a collar - Absolute ground for refusal - No distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   2014/C 135/41
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Lardini Srl (Filottrano, Italy) (represented by: P. Roncaglia, G. Lazzeretti, F. Rossi and N. Parrotta, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: P. Bullock and N. Bambara, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 13 December 2012 (Case R 2578/2011-1), concerning an application for registration as a Community trade mark of a sign consisting in the affixing of a flower to a collar.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders Lardini Srl to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 141, 18.5.2013.