CELEX: 62013TA0066
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-66/13: Judgment of the General Court of 16 July 2014  — Langguth Erben v OHIM (Shape of an alcoholic beverage bottle) (Community trade mark — Application for a three-dimensional Community trade mark — Shape of an alcoholic beverage bottle — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (2), Article 75, Article 76(1) and Article 77 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

1.9.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 292/41
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 July 2014 — Langguth Erben v OHIM (Shape of an alcoholic beverage bottle)
   (Case T-66/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Application for a three-dimensional Community trade mark - Shape of an alcoholic beverage bottle - Absolute ground for refusal - Lack of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (2), Article 75, Article 76(1) and Article 77 of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   2014/C 292/50
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Franz Wilhelm Langguth Erben GmbH & Co. KG (Traben-Trarbach, Germany) (represented by: R. Kunze and G. Würtenberger, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Marten, G. Schneider and D. Walicka, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 22 November 2012 (Case R 129/2012-1), concerning an application for registration of a three-dimensional sign comprising the shape of an alcoholic beverage bottle as a Community trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Franz Wilhelm Langguth Erben GmbH & Co. KG to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM).
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 108, 13.4.2013.