CELEX: 62011CA0311
Language: en
Date: 2012-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-311/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 July 2012 — Smart Technologies ULC v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Appeals — Community trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 40/94 — Article 7(1)(b) — Word mark WIR MACHEN DAS BESONDERE EINFACH — Mark consisting of an advertising slogan — Distinctive character — Refusal to register)

22.9.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 287/15
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 July 2012 — Smart Technologies ULC v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   (Case C-311/11 P) (1)
   
   (Appeals - Community trade mark - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Article 7(1)(b) - Word mark WIR MACHEN DAS BESONDERE EINFACH - Mark consisting of an advertising slogan - Distinctive character - Refusal to register)
   2012/C 287/26
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Smart Technologies ULC (represented by: M. Edenborough QC, and T. Elias, barrister)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal against the judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 13 April 2011Smart Technologies v OHMI (Case T-523/09) by which that court dismissed an application for annulment of the decision R 554/2009-2 of the second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 29 September 2009, rejecting the appeal against the examiner’s decision refusing to register the word mark ‘WIR MACHEN DAS BESONDERE EINFACH’ in respect of goods in Class 9.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Smart Technologies ULC to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 269, 10.9.2011.