CELEX: 62010TJ0565
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-06
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 6 March 2012. # ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark Highprotect - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-565/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 6 March 2012 — ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe v OHIM (Highprotect)
      (Case T‑565/10)
      Community trade mark — Application for Community word mark Highprotect — Absolute grounds 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 15-18)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 30 September 2010 (Decision R 1038/2010‑1), concerning
                  an application for registration of the word mark Highprotect as a Community trade mark.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG to pay the costs.