CELEX: C2006/131/82
Language: en
Date: 2006-06-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-97/06: Action brought on  29 March 2006  — Neoperl v OHIM

3.6.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 131/44
            
         Action brought on 29 March 2006 — Neoperl v OHIM
   (Case T-97/06)
   (2006/C 131/82)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Neoperl GmbH (Müllheim, Germany) (represented by H. Börjes-Pestalozza, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   Form of order sought
   
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               annul contested Decision R 0612/2005-4 and order the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market to publish application No 3 636 206 for the purposes of its registration as a Community trade mark.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Three dimensional mark ‘Sanitärschlauch’ — shape of a tube — for goods in Classes 11 and 17 — Application No 3 636 206.
   
      Decision of the Examiner: Rejection of the application
   Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: The mark applied for has the necessary distinctive character for the purposes of Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (1).
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1).