CELEX: C2005/019/47
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 November 2004 in Case T-396/02: August Storck KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Community trade mark — Three-dimensional mark — Shape of a sweet — Absolute grounds for refusal — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Distinctive character acquired through use — Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

22.1.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/22
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   
   of 10 November 2004
   in Case T-396/02: August Storck KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade marks and Designs) (OHIM) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Three-dimensional mark - Shape of a sweet - Absolute grounds for refusal - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Distinctive character acquired through use - Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2005/C 19/47)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case T-396/02: August Storck KG, established in Berlin, represented by H. Wrage-Molkenthin, T. Reher, A. Heise and I. Rohr, lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg against Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: B. Müller and G. Schneider) – action for annulment of the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 October 2002 (Case R 187/2001-4), refusing registration of a three-dimensional mark comprised of the shape of a light-brown sweet – the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber), composed of H. Legal, President, V. Tiili and M. Vilaras, Judges; B. Pastor, Deputy Registrar, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 10 November 2004, in which it:
   
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               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 55 of 8.3.2003.