CELEX: C2007/155/45
Language: en
Date: 2007-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-241/05, T-262/05 to T-264/05, T-346/05, T-347/05, T-29/06 to T-31/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 23 May 2007 — The Procter & Gamble Company v OHIM (Community trade mark — Applications for three-dimensional trade marks — Square white tablets with coloured floral design — Absolute ground for refusal — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Absence of distinctive character)

7.7.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/23
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 23 May 2007 — The Procter & Gamble Company v OHIM
   (Joined Cases T-241/05, T-262/05 to T-264/05, T-346/05, T-347/05, T-29/06 to T-31/06) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Applications for three-dimensional trade marks - Square white tablets with coloured floral design - Absolute ground for refusal - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Absence of distinctive character)
   (2007/C 155/45)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) (represented by: G.Kuipers, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (represented by: D. Schennen, then G. Schneider, Agents)
   Re:
   Nine Actions against the decisions of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 April 2005 (case R 843/2004-1), of 3 May 2005 (Case R 845/2004-1), of 4 May 2005 (Case R 849/2004-1), of 1 June 2005 (Case R 1184/2004-1), of 6 July 2005 (Cases R 1188/2004-1 and R 1182/2004-1), of 16 November 2005 (Case R 1183/2004-1), of 21 November 2005 (Case R 1072/2004-1) and of 22 November 2005 (Case R 1071/2004-1) concerning the application to register three-dimensional trade marks.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the actions;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 205, 20.8.2005.