CELEX: 62010TJ0392
Language: en
Date: 2011-05-24 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 24 May 2011. # Euro-Information - Européenne de traitement de l’information v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark EURO AUTOMATIC CASH - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-392/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 24 May 2011 – Euro‑Information v OHIM (EURO AUTOMATIC CASH)
      (Case T-392/10)
      Community trade mark – Application for Community word mark EURO AUTOMATIC CASH – Absolute grounds for refusal – Descriptive character – Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      Community trade mark – Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark – Absolute grounds for refusal – Marks composed exclusively of signs or indications which may serve to designate the characteristics of goods (Council Regulation
         No 40/94, Art. 7(1)(c)) (see para. 59)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 17 June 2010 (Case R 892/2010-2) concerning an
                  application for registration of the word sign EURO AUTOMATIC CASH as a Community trade mark.
               
            Information relating to the case 
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark: 
            
            
               Euro-Information – Européenne de traitement de l’information
            
         
               Community trade mark sought: 
            
            
               Word mark EURO AUTOMATIC CASH for goods and services in Classes 9, 35 to 38 and 42 – Application No 4114864
            
         
               Decision of the examiner: 
            
            
               Registration refused 
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal: 
            
            
               Partial annulment of the examiner’s decision; partial refusal of registration of the trade mark applied for; decision taken
                  subsequent to the General Court’s judgment in Case T-15/09 Euro-Information v OHIM (EURO AUTOMATIC CASH), judgment of 9 March 2010, not published in the ECR
               
            
         
      Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Euro-Information – Européenne de traitement de l'information to pay the costs.