CELEX: 62015TA0064
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-64/15: Judgment of the General Court of 15 December 2015 — Shoe Branding Europe v OHIM (two parallel stripes on pants) (Community trade mark — Application for a Community trade mark consisting of two parallel stripes on pants — Absolute ground for refusal — No distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

8.2.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 48/49
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 15 December 2015 — Shoe Branding Europe v OHIM (two parallel stripes on pants)
   (Case T-64/15) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Application for a Community trade mark consisting of two parallel stripes on pants - Absolute ground for refusal - No distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 048/56)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Shoe Branding Europe BVBA (Oudenaarde, Belgium) (represented by: J. Løje, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: initially by P. Geroulakos, and subsequently by D. Gája, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 3 December 2014 (Case R 2563/2013-5), concerning an application for registration of a sign consisting of two parallel stripes on pants as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Shoe Branding Europe BVBA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 107, 30.3.2015.