CELEX: 62013TA0484
Language: en
Date: 2014-11-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-484/13: Judgment of the General Court of 18 November 2014  — Lumene v OHIM (THE YOUTH EXPERTS) (Community trade mark — Application for Community word mark THE YOUTH EXPERTS — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Extent of the examination to be carried out by the Board of Appeal — Examination as to the merits conditional on the admissibility of the action — First sentence of Article 59 of Regulation No 207/2009)

12.1.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 7/35
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 18 November 2014 — Lumene v OHIM (THE YOUTH EXPERTS)
   (Case T-484/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark THE YOUTH EXPERTS - Absolute ground for refusal - Lack of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Extent of the examination to be carried out by the Board of Appeal - Examination as to the merits conditional on the admissibility of the action - First sentence of Article 59 of Regulation No 207/2009))
   (2015/C 007/39)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Lumene Oy (Espoo, Finland) (represented by: L. Laaksonen, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Schneider, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 26 June 2013 (Case R 187/2013-2) concerning an application for registration of the word sign THE YOUTH EXPERTS as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 26 June 2013 (Case R 187/2013-2) as regards ‘[b]leaching preparations and other substances for laundry use [and] cleaning, polishing, scouring and abrasive preparations’ in Class 3 of the Nice Agreement concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of 15 June 1957, as revised and amended, and ‘[s]anitary preparations for medical purposes[,] plasters, materials for dressings[,] material for stopping teeth [and] dental wax[,] disinfectants[,] preparations for destroying vermin[,] fungicides [and] herbicides’ in Class 5 of that agreement;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders each party to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 344, 23.11.2013.