CELEX: C2004/118/28
Language: en
Date: 2004-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 29 April 2004 in Joined Cases C-473/01 P and C-474/01 P: Procter & Gamble Company 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 machine or dishwashers — Absolute ground for refusal to register — Distinctive character)

30.4.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 118/16
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Sixth Chamber)
   of 29 April 2004
   in Joined Cases C-473/01 P and C-474/01 P: Procter & Gamble Company 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 machine or dishwashers - Absolute ground for refusal to register - Distinctive character)
   (2004/C 118/28)
   Language of the case: English
   In Joined Cases C-473/01 P and C-474/01 P: two appeals by Procter & Gamble Company, established in Cincinnati (United States) (Lawyers: C. van Nispen and G. Kuipers ) against the judgments of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (Second Chamber) of 19 September 2001 in Case T-128/00 Procter & Gamble v OHIM (square tablet with inlay) [2001] ECR II-2785 and Case T-129/00 Procter & Gamble v OHIM (rectangular tablet with inlay) [2001] ECR II-2793, seeking to have those judgments set aside in part, the other party to the proceedings being: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (Agents: D. Schennen and C. Røhl Søberg) - 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 Procter & Gamble Company to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 68 of 16.3.2002
   
   
      OJ 84 of 6.4.2002