CELEX: 62009TJ0497
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 16 December 2010. # LG Electronics, Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark KOMPRESSOR PLUS - Absolute ground for refusal - Descriptive character - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-497/09.

Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 16 December 2010 – LG Electronics v OHIM (KOMPRESSOR PLUS)
      (Case T-497/09)
      Community trade mark – Application for Community word mark KOMPRESSOR PLUS – Absolute ground for refusal – Descriptive character – Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009
      Community trade mark – Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark – Absolute grounds for refusal – Marks composed exclusively of signs or indications which may serve to designate the characteristics of goods (Council Regulation
         No 207/2009, Art. 7(1)(c)) (see paras 14, 18-21)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 23 September 2009 (Case R 397/2009-1), relating
                  to an application for registration as a Community trade mark of the word sign KOMPRESSOR PLUS.
               
            Information relating to the case 
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               LG Electronics, Inc.
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Word mark KOMPRESSOR PLUS for goods in Class 7 – Application No 7282924
            
         
               Decision of the examiner:
            
            
               Registration refused 
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Appeal partially dismissed 
            
         
      Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders LG Electronics, Inc. to pay the costs.