CELEX: 62011TJ0328
Language: en
Date: 2012-04-24
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 24 April 2012. # Leifheit AG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark EcoPerfect - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-328/11.

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 24 April 2012 — Leifheit v OHIM (EcoPerfect)
      (Case T-328/11)
      Community trade mark — Application for Community word mark EcoPerfect — 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 207/2009, Art. 7(1)(c)) (see paras 20, 35, 49, 58, 63)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 31 March 2011 (Case R 1658/2010‑1) concerning
                  an application for registration of the word sign EcoPerfect as a Community trade mark.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the application;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Leifheit AG to pay the costs.