CELEX: 62007TN0405
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-405/07: Action brought on 14 November 2007 — Caisse Fédérale du Crédit Mutuel Centre Est Europe v OHIM (P@YWEB CARD)

12.1.2008   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 8/21
            
         Action brought on 14 November 2007 — Caisse Fédérale du Crédit Mutuel Centre Est Europe v OHIM (P@YWEB CARD)
   (Case T-405/07)
   (2008/C 8/37)
   Language in which the application was lodged: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Caisse Fédérale du Crédit Mutuel Centre Est Europe (Strasbourg, France) (represented by: P. Greffe and J. Schouman, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)
   Form of order sought
   
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               Annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 10 July 2007, notified on 14 September 2007, Case R 119/2007-1 refusing its application for registration of Community trade mark P@YWEB CARD, application No 3 861 044, for all the goods and services designated in classes 9, 36 and 38;
            
         
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               Registration of Community trade mark application P@YWEB CARD No 3 861 044, for all the goods and services designated.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Word mark ‘P@YWEB CARD’ for goods and services in classes 9, 36 and 38 (Application No 3 861 044)
   
      Decision of the Examiner: Application for registration refused
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Appeal dismissed
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Council Regulation No 40/94 (1) in that, according to the applicant and contrary to the findings in the contested decision, the term ‘P@YWEB CARD’ is not descriptive but, on the contrary, distinctive in relation to the goods and services designated.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1).