CELEX: 62015TA0090
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-90/15: Judgment of the General Court of 16 March 2016 — Schoeller Corporation v OHIM — Sqope (SCOPE) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Community word mark SCOPE — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character — Distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 52(1)(a) of Regulation No 207/2009)

2.5.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 156/40
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 March 2016 — Schoeller Corporation v OHIM — Sqope (SCOPE)
   (Case T-90/15) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Community word mark SCOPE - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Article 52(1)(a) of Regulation No 207/2009))
   (2016/C 156/53)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Schoeller Corporation GmbH (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: D. van Ackeren, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Hanne, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Sqope SA (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) (represented: M.-C. Simon, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 21 November 2014 (Case R 2381/2013-1), relating to invalidity proceedings between Sqope SA and Schoeller Corporation GmbH.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 21 November 2014 (Case R 2381/2013-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders OHIM and Sqope SA to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by Schoeller Corporation GmbH.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 118, 13.4.2015.