CELEX: 62005TA0462
Language: en
Date: 2008-12-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-462/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 December 2008 — JTEKT v OHIM (IFS) (Community trade mark — Application for a Community word mark IFS — Absolute grounds for refusal — Not descriptive — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

7.2.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/26
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 December 2008 — JTEKT v OHIM (IFS)
   (Case T-462/05) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Application for a Community word mark IFS - Absolute grounds for refusal - Not descriptive - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2009/C 32/47)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: JTEKT Corp., formerly Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha (Aichi-ken, Japan) (represented by: initially by J. Wachinger and M. Zöbisch, and subsequently by M. De Zorti, M. Koch and T. Grimm, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, Agent)
   Re:
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 September 2005 (Case R 1157/2004-1) concerning an application to register the word mark IFS 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 14 September 2005 (Case R 1157/2004-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by JTEKT Corp.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 74, 25.3.2006.