CELEX: 62010TJ0208
Language: en
Date: 2011-07-07
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 July 2011. # Cree, Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark TRUEWHITE - Absolute grounds for refusal - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation No 207/2009 - Descriptive mark. # Case T-208/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 July 2011 – Cree v OHIM (TRUEWHITE)
      (Case T-208/10)
      Community trade mark – Application for Community word mark TRUEWHITE – Absolute grounds for refusal – Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation No 207/2009 – Descriptive mark
      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 23, 25, 31)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 17 February 2010 (Case R 985/2009‑2) concerning
                  registration of the sign TRUEWHITE as a Community trade mark.
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	2.Orders Cree, Inc. to pay the costs.