CELEX: 62016TA0659
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-659/16: Judgment of the General Court of 14 June 2017 — LG Electronics v EUIPO (Second Display) (EU trade mark — Application for the EU word mark Second Display — Absolute grounds for refusal — Descriptiveness — No distinctive character — Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

31.7.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 249/28
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 June 2017 — LG Electronics v EUIPO (Second Display)
   (Case T-659/16) (1)
   
   ((EU trade mark - Application for the EU word mark Second Display - Absolute grounds for refusal - Descriptiveness - No distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) and (c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   (2017/C 249/42)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: LG Electronics, Inc. (Seoul, Republic of Korea) (represented by: T. de Haan and P. Péters, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of EUIPO dated 10 June 2016 (Case R 106/2016-1) concerning an application for registration of the word sign Second Display as an EU trade mark.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders LG Electronics, Inc. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 402, 31.10.2016.