CELEX: 62007TA0184
Language: en
Date: 2008-11-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-184/07: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 26 November 2008 — Avon Products OHIM (ANEW ALTERNATIVE) (Community trade mark — Application for the Community word mark ANEW ALTERNATIVE — Absolute ground for refusal — Lack of distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

24.1.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/27
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 26 November 2008 — Avon Products OHIM (ANEW ALTERNATIVE)
   (Case T-184/07) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Application for the Community word mark ANEW ALTERNATIVE - Absolute ground for refusal - Lack of distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2009/C 19/50)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Avon Products, Inc. (New York, New York, United States) (represented by: C. Heitmann-Lichtenstein and U. Stelzenmüller, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: initially by S. Laitinen and P. Bullock, and subsequently by G. Schneider, Agents)
   Re:
   ACTION brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 22 March 2007 (Case R 1471/2006 2), concerning an application for registration as a Community trade mark of the word mark ANEW ALTERNATIVE.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Avon Products, Inc. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 170, 21.7.2007.