CELEX: 62013TN0697
Language: en
Date: 2013-12-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-697/13: Action brought on 27 December 2013 — Kinnarps v OHIM (MAKING LIFE BETTER AT WORK)

29.3.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 93/25
            
         Action brought on 27 December 2013 — Kinnarps v OHIM (MAKING LIFE BETTER AT WORK)
   (Case T-697/13)
   2014/C 93/44
   Language in which the application was lodged: Swedish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Kinnarps AB (Falköping, Sweden) (represented by: M. Wahlin, 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 Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 28 October 2013 in Case R 2272/2012-2;
            
         
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               Declare that the applicant’s trade mark MAKING LIFE BETTER AT WORK, in respect of the goods and services claimed in the case, has the necessary distinctive character for registration as a Community trade mark;
            
         
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               Order OHIM to pay the applicant’s costs of the proceedings before both the General Court and OHIM.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Community trade mark applied for: Word mark ‘MAKING LIFE BETTER AT WORK’ for goods and services in Classes 16, 20, 35 and 42 — application for registration of a Community trade mark No 10 887 982
   
      Decision of the Examiners: Rejection of the application for registration
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Failure to have regard to Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation No 207/2009