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Document 62002TJ0305
Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 3 December 2003. # Nestlé Waters France v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Three-dimensional mark - Shape of a bottle - Absolute grounds for refusal - Distinctive character - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94. # Case T-305/02.
Sentenza tal-Qorti tal-Prim'Istanza (ir-Raba' Awla) tat-3 ta' Diċembru 2003.
Nestlé Waters France vs l-Uffiċċju għall-Armonizzazzjoni fis-Suq Intern (trademarks u disinni) (UASI).
Trademark komunitarja - Motivi assoluti tar-rifjut.
Kawża T-305/02.
Sentenza tal-Qorti tal-Prim'Istanza (ir-Raba' Awla) tat-3 ta' Diċembru 2003.
Nestlé Waters France vs l-Uffiċċju għall-Armonizzazzjoni fis-Suq Intern (trademarks u disinni) (UASI).
Trademark komunitarja - Motivi assoluti tar-rifjut.
Kawża T-305/02.
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2003:328
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(Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 7(1)(b))
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Fourth Chamber)
3 December 2003 (1)
((Community trade mark – Three-dimensional mark – Shape of a bottle – Absolute grounds for refusal – Distinctive character – Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94))
In Case T-305/02, Nestlé Waters France, established in Issy-les-Moulineaux (France), represented by A. Cléry, avocat,applicant,
v
Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), represented by A. Rassat and O. Waelbroeck, acting as Agents,defendant,
APPLICATION for annulment of the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 12 July 2002 (Case R 719/2000-4) refusing to register a three-dimensional trade mark consisting of the shape of a transparent bottle,THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (Fourth Chamber),
having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 10 July 2003,
gives the following
On those grounds,
THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Fourth Chamber),
hereby:
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Mengozzi |
Vilaras |
H. Jung |
V. Tiili |
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President |