CELEX: 62009TO0394
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Order of the General Court (First Chamber) of 14 December 2010. # General Bearing Corp. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark GENERAL BEARING CORPORATION - Absolute ground for refusal - Lack of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009). # Case T-394/09.

Order of the General Court (First Chamber) of 14 December 2010 – General Bearing v OHIM (GENERAL BEARING CORPORATION)
      (Case T-394/09)
      Community trade mark – Application for Community word mark GENERAL BEARING CORPORATION – Absolute ground for refusal – Lack of distinctive character – Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      Procedure – Application initiating proceedings – Formal requirements – Identification of the subject-matter of the dispute – Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 44(1)(c))
         (see para. 20)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 16 July 2009 (Case R 73/2009‑1), concerning an
                  application for registration of the word sign GENERAL BEARING CORPORATION as a Community trade mark.
               
            Information relating to the case 
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               General Bearing Corp.
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Word mark GENERAL BEARING CORPORATION for goods in Classes 7 and 12 – Registration No 6345871 
            
         
               Decision of the examiner:
            
            
               Registration refused 
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Appeal dismissed 
            
         
      Operative part
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	The action is dismissed as manifestly inadmissible.
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	General Bearing Corp. is ordered to pay the costs.