CELEX: 62013CA0420
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-420/13: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 10 July 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany)) — Netto Marken-Discount AG & Co. KG v Deutsches Patent- und Marken (Request for a preliminary ruling — Trade marks — Directive 2008/95/EC — Identification of goods or services for which the protection of a trade mark is sought — Requirements of clarity and precision — Nice Classification — Retail trade — Bringing together of services)

15.9.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 315/20
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 10 July 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany)) — Netto Marken-Discount AG & Co. KG v Deutsches Patent- und Marken
   (Case C-420/13) (1)
   
   ((Request for a preliminary ruling - Trade marks - Directive 2008/95/EC - Identification of goods or services for which the protection of a trade mark is sought - Requirements of clarity and precision - Nice Classification - Retail trade - Bringing together of services))
   2014/C 315/29
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundespatentgericht
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Netto Marken-Discount AG & Co. KG
   
      Defendant: Deutsches Patent- und Marken
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Services rendered by an economic operator which consist in bringing together services so that the consumer can conveniently compare and purchase them may come within the concept of ‘services’ referred to in Article 2 of Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Directive 2008/95 must be interpreted as imposing a requirement that an application for registration of a trade mark with respect to a service which consists in bringing together services must be formulated with sufficient clarity and precision so as to allow the competent authorities and other economic operators to know which services the applicant intends to bring together.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 313, 26.10.2013.