CELEX: 62006TA0230
Language: en
Date: 2008-10-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-230/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 October 2008 — Rewe-Zentrale v OHIM (PORT LOUIS) (Community trade mark — Application for the Community word mark PORT LOUIS — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptive character — Designation of the geographical origin of the goods — Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

6.12.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 313/30
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 October 2008 — Rewe-Zentrale v OHIM (PORT LOUIS)
   (Case T-230/06) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Application for the Community word mark PORT LOUIS - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptive character - Designation of the geographical origin of the goods - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2008/C 313/53)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Rewe-Zentrale AG (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: M. Kinkeldey and A. Bognár, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Schneider, agent)
   Re:
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 21 June 2006 (Case R 25/2006-1) concerning an application to register the word mark PORT LOUIS as a Community trade mark.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               annuls the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 21 June 2006 (Case R 25/2006-1);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders OHIM to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 261 of 28.10.2006.