CELEX: 62015TA0594
Language: en
Date: 2017-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-594/15: Judgment of the General Court of 6 April 2017 — Metabolic Balance Holding v EUIPO (Metabolic Balance) (EU trade mark — Application for the EU figurative mark Metabolic Balance — Absolute ground for refusal — Descriptiveness — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

22.5.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 161/24
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 6 April 2017 — Metabolic Balance Holding v EUIPO (Metabolic Balance)
   (Case T-594/15) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Application for the EU figurative mark Metabolic Balance - Absolute ground for refusal - Descriptiveness - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 161/33)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Metabolic Balance Holding GmbH (Isen, Germany) (represented by: W. Riegger, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: M. Fischer and J. Németh, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 August 2015 (Case R 2156/2014-1), concerning an application for registration of the figurative sign Metabolic Balance as an EU trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Metabolic Balance Holding GmbH to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by EUIPO.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 398, 30.11.2015.