CELEX: 62010TJ0512
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-21 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 21 September 2011. # Nike International Ltd v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark DYNAMIC SUPPORT - Absolute ground for refusal - Descriptive character - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-512/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 21 September 2011 – Nike International v OHIM (DYNAMIC SUPPORT)
      (Case T-512/10)
      Community trade mark – Application for Community word mark DYNAMIC SUPPORT – 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 17, 25)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 25 August 2010 (Case R 640/2010-4), concerning
                  an application for registration of the word sign DYNAMIC SUPPORT as a Community trade mark.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Nike International Ltd to pay the costs.