CELEX: 62010TN0209
Language: en
Date: 2010-05-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-209/10: Action brought on 5 May 2010 — Deutscher Ring v OHIM (Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG)

3.7.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 179/54
            
         Action brought on 5 May 2010 — Deutscher Ring v OHIM (Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG)
   (Case T-209/10)
   2010/C 179/92
   Language in which the application was lodged: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by A. Busse, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annul the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 11 March 2010 in Case R 1290/2009-1 and register the trade mark applied for; and
            
         
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               Order the defendant to pay the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Word mark ‘Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG’ for services in Class 36.
   
      Decision of the Examiner: Rejection of the application
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009, (1) since the Community trade mark concerned is distinctive and not merely descriptive.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1).