CELEX: 62006TA0117
Language: en
Date: 2007-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-117/06: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 12 December 2007 — DeTeMedien v OHIM (suchen.de) (Community trade mark — Application for the Community word mark suchen.de — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Domain name — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

26.1.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/44
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 12 December 2007 — DeTeMedien v OHIM (suchen.de)
   (Case T-117/06) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Application for the Community word mark suchen.de - Absolute ground for refusal - Lack of distinctive character - Domain name - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2008/C 22/81)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: DeTeMedien Deutsche Telekom Medien GmbH ((Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (represented initially by J. Fesenmair and I. Gehring, and subsequently by J. Fesenmair and T.M. Müller, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: G. Schneider, Agent)
   Re:
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 30 January 2006 (Case R 287/2005-1) concerning an application for registration of the word sign suchen.de as a Community trade mark.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders DeTeMedien Deutsche Telekom Medien GmbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 143, 17.6.2006.