CELEX: 62005TA0248
Language: en
Date: 2008-09-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-248/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 24 September 2008 — HUP Uslugi Polska v OHIM — (I.T.@MANPOWER) (Community trade mark — Invalidity proceedings — Communityword mark I.T.@MANPOWER — Absolute grounds for refusal — Distinctive character — Lack of descriptive character — No signs or indications which have become customary — Not a trade mark of such a nature as to deceive the public — Article 7(1)(b), (c), (d) and (g) and Article 51(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

8.11.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 285/34
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 24 September 2008 — HUP Uslugi Polska v OHIM — (I.T.@MANPOWER)
   (Case T-248/05) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Invalidity proceedings - Communityword mark ‘I.T.@MANPOWER’ - Absolute grounds for refusal - Distinctive character - Lack of descriptive character - No signs or indications which have become customary - Not a trade mark of such a nature as to deceive the public - Article 7(1)(b), (c), (d) and (g) and Article 51(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2008/C 285/61)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: HUP Uslugi Polska sp. z o.o., formerly HP Temporärpersonalgesellschaft mbH (Czeladz, Poland) (represented by: M. Ciresa, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Manpower Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States) (represented by: R. Moscona and V. Marsland, Solicitors, and A. Bryson, Barrister)
   Re:
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 5 April 2005 (Case R 124/2004-4) concerning invalidity proceedings between MP Temporärpersonal GmbH and Manpower Inc.
   Operative part of the order
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders HUP Uslugi Polska sp. z o.o. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 217, 3.9.2005.