CELEX: 62010TJ0531
Language: en
Date: 2011-12-14
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 December 2011. # Häfele GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark Vorfront - Absolute ground for refusal - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-531/10.

Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 December 2011 – Häfele v OHIM (Vorfront)
      (Case T-531/10)
      Community trade mark – Application for Community word mark Vorfront – Absolute ground for refusal – 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 23-24, 26-27, 35)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 September 2010 (Case R 570/2010‑1), concerning
                  an application for registration of the word sign Vorfront as a Community trade mark.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Häfele GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.