CELEX: 62019TA0624
Language: en
Date: 2021-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-624/19: Judgment of the General Court of 30 June 2021 — Welter’s v EUIPO (Shape of a handgrip with a brush) (EU trade mark — Application for three-dimensional EU trade mark — Shape of a handgrip with a brush — Absolute ground for refusal — No distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)

16.8.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 329/19
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 30 June 2021 — Welter’s v EUIPO (Shape of a handgrip with a brush)
      (Case T-624/19) (1)
      
      (EU trade mark - Application for three-dimensional EU trade mark - Shape of a handgrip with a brush - Absolute ground for refusal - No distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001)
      (2021/C 329/23)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Welter’s Co. Ltd (Douliu, Taiwan) (represented by: T. Meinke, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: A. Söder, acting as Agent)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 11 July 2019 (Case R 2428/2018-5) concerning an application for registration of a three-dimensional sign consisting of the shape of a handgrip with a brush as an EU trade mark.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Welter’s Co. Ltd to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 399, 25.11.2019.