CELEX: C2006/310/45
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-294/06: Action brought on 20 October 2006 — Nordmilch v OHIM (Vitality)

16.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 310/23
            
         Action brought on 20 October 2006 — Nordmilch v OHIM (Vitality)
   (Case T-294/06)
   (2006/C 310/45)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Nordmilch eG (Zeven, Germany) (represented by R. Schneider, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   Form of order sought
   
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               annul the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 9 August 2006 in Case R 746/2004-4 in so far as it dismisses the applicant's appeal
            
         
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               order OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay the applicant's costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The word mark ‘Vitality’ for goods and services in Classes 29, 30, 32, 33 and 43 (Application No 2 835 684).
   
      Decision of the Examiner: Partial refusal to register
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: The ground for denying the mark protection which is given in Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (1) does not preclude registration as the mark for which registration is sought makes it immediately possible for the relevant public to recognise the origin of the goods protected by that mark and to distinguish them from the goods of other enterprises.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1)