CELEX: 62005TJ0459
Language: en
Date: 2007-11-08 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of 8 November 2007. # MPDV Mikrolab GmbH, Mikroprozessordatenverarbeitung und Mikroprozessorlabor v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Community trade mark application in respect of manufacturing score card word mark - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptiveness - Lack of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94. # Case T-459/05.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of 8 November 2007 – MPDV Mikrolab v OHIM (manufacturing score card)
      (Case T-459/05)
      Community trade mark – Community trade mark application in respect of manufacturing score card word mark – Absolute grounds for refusal – Descriptiveness – Lack of distinctive character – Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94
      Community trade mark – Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark – Absolute grounds for refusal – Marks composed exclusively of signs or indications capable of serving to designate the characteristics of a product (Council
         Regulation No 40/94, Art. 7(1)(c)) (see paras 25-26)
      
      Re:
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 19 October 2005 (Case R 1059/2004-2) concerning
                  an application for registration of the manufacturing score card word mark as a Community trade mark.
               
            Information relating to the case
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               MPDV Mikrolab GmbH, Mikroprozessordatenverarbeitung und Mikroprozessorlabor
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Word mark manufacturing score card for goods and services in Classes 9, 35 and 42 – Application No 3334596
            
         
               Decision of the Examiner:
            
            
               Refusal of registration
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Appeal dismissed
            
         
      Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders MPDV Mikrolab GmbH, Mikroprozessordatenverarbeitung und Mikroprozessorlabor to pay the costs.