CELEX: 62010TA0209
Language: en
Date: 2012-07-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-209/10: Judgment of the General Court of 5 July 2012 — Deutscher Ring v OHIM (Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG) (Community trade mark — Application for Community word mark Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character — Distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

11.8.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 243/17
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 5 July 2012 — Deutscher Ring v OHIM (Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG)
   (Case T-209/10) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)
   2012/C 243/31
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by: E. Busse, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Schneider, agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 11 March 2010 (Case R 1290/2009-1) concerning an application for registration of the word mark Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 11 March 2010 (Case R 1290/2009-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 179, 3.7.2010.