CELEX: 62009TN0007
Language: en
Date: 2009-01-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-7/09: Action brought on 12 January 2009 — Schunk v OHIM (cylinder-shaped section of a chuck)

21.3.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 69/46
            
         Action brought on 12 January 2009 — Schunk v OHIM (cylinder-shaped section of a chuck)
   (Case T-7/09)
   (2009/C 69/101)
   Language in which the application was lodged: Germany
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Schunk GmbH & Co. KG Spann- und Greiftechnik (Lauffen am Neckar, Germany) (represented by C. Koppe-Zagouras, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   Form of order sought
   
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               annul the decision of the First Board of Appeal of 31 October 2008 — Case R 1109/2007-1;
            
         
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               order the defendant to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Community trade mark concerned: another type of mark, showing the cylinder-shaped section of a chuck, for goods in Classes 7 and 8 — Application No 3 098 894
   
      Decision of the Examiner: Refusal of the application
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (1), as the registered mark has the necessary distinctive character. Further, the registered mark has distinctive character in consequence of use under Article 7(3) of Regulation No 40/94.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1).