CELEX: C2004/118/26
Language: en
Date: 2004-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 29 April 2004 in Joined Case C-456/01 P and C-457/01P: Henkel KGaA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Appeal — Community trade mark — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Three-dimensional tablets for washing machines or dishwashers — Absolute ground for refusal to register — Distinctive character)

30.4.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 118/15
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Sixth Chamber)
   of 29 April 2004
   in Joined Case C-456/01 P and C-457/01P: Henkel KGaA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Community trade mark - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Three-dimensional tablets for washing machines or dishwashers - Absolute ground for refusal to register - Distinctive character)
   (2004/C 118/26)
   Language of the case: German
   In Joined Cases C-456/01 P and C-457/01 P: two appeals by Henkel KGaA, established in Düsseldorf (Germany), (Lawyer: C. Osterrieth ) – against the judgments of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (Second Chamber) of 19 September 2001 in Case T-335/99 Henkel v OHIM (rectangular tablet, red and white) [2001] ECR II-2581 and Case T-336/99 Henkel v OHIM (rectangular tablet, green and white) [2001] ECR II-2589, seeking to have those judgments set aside, the other party to the proceedings being: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: D. Schennen and S. Laitinen ) Ä the Court (Sixth Chamber), composed of: V. Skouris, acting as the President of the Sixth Chamber, J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen and F. Macken (Rapporteur), Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; M. Múgica Arzamendi, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 29 April 2004, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeals;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Henkel KGaA to pay the costs
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 84 of 6.4.2002