Document ID: docfile:37a63301-867e-4327-bff9-b7131a6cb830
Source Database: eurlex_case_law
Source URL: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/AUTO/?uri=CELEX:62010TJ0531&qid=1741620323684&rid=19394
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 December 2011. # Häfele GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark Vorfront - Absolute ground for refusal - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-531/10.
Date: 2011-12-14T01:00:00.000+01:00
Metadata: {"title": "Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 December 2011. # H\u00e4fele GmbH & Co. KG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Application for Community word mark Vorfront - Absolute ground for refusal - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009. # Case T-531/10.", "celex": "62010TJ0531", "date_of_document": "2011-12-14T00:00:00.000Z", "ecli": "ECLI:EU:T:2011:745", "author": "General Court", "form": "Judgment"}

# **Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 December 2011 – Häfele v OHIM (Vorfront)**

# **(Case T-531/10)**

Community trade mark – Application for Community word mark Vorfront – Absolute ground for refusal – Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009

Community trade mark – Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark – Absolute grounds for refusal – Marks composed exclusively of signs or indications which may serve to designate the characteristics of goods (Council Regulation No 207/2009, Art. 7(1)(c)) (see paras 23-24, 26-27, 35)

## **Re:**

ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 September 2010 (Case R 570/2010‑1), concerning an application for registration of the word sign Vorfront as a Community trade mark.

## **Operative part**

The Court:

    Dismisses the action;

    Orders Häfele GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.