Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 February 2000 in Case T-122/99: The Procter & Gamble Company v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Community trade mark — Soap bar shape — Formal irregularity in an application for registration — Absolute grounds for refusal to register — Review by the Board of Appeal of it own motion — Observance of the rights of the defence — Sign consisting exclusively of a shape which results from the nature of the goods themselves — Earlier registration of the mark in some Member States)

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 February 2000 in Case T-122/99: The Procter & Gamble Company v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Community trade mark — Soap bar shape — Formal irregularity in an application for registration — Absolute grounds for refusal to register — Review by the Board of Appeal of it own motion — Observance of the rights of the defence — Sign consisting exclusively of a shape which results from the nature of the goods themselves — Earlier registration of the mark in some Member States)

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 February 2000 in Case T-122/99: The Procter & Gamble Company v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Community trade mark — Soap bar shape — Formal irregularity in an application for registration — Absolute grounds for refusal to register — Review by the Board of Appeal of it own motion — Observance of the rights of the defence — Sign consisting exclusively of a shape which results from the nature of the goods themselves — Earlier registration of the mark in some Member States)

SL C 122, 29.4.2000, p. 33–33 (ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI, SV)