CELEX: 62008TN0139
Language: en
Date: 2008-04-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-139/08: Action brought on 11 April 2008 — Loufrani v OHIM (half-smiley)

7.6.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 142/34
            
         Action brought on 11 April 2008 — Loufrani v OHIM (half-smiley)
   (Case T-139/08)
   (2008/C 142/62)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Franklin Loufrani (London, United Kingdom) (represented by: A. Deutsch, 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 7 February 2008 in case R 0958/2007-4); and
            
         
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               order OHIM to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Community trade mark concerned: The figurative mark ‘half-smiley’ for goods in classes 14, 18 and 25 — application No 893 580
   
      Decision of the examiner: Refusal of the application for all goods
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) of Council Regulation No 40/94 as the mark acquired the minimum degree of distinctiveness required to be registered.