ORDER OF THE COURT

(Fourth Chamber)

of 5 February 2004

in Case C-326/01: Telefon & Buch VerlagsgmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (1)

(Appeal - Community trade mark - Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Absolute ground for refusal to register - Distinctive character - Marks consisting exclusively of descriptive signs or indications - Word marks ‘Universaltelefonbuch’ and ‘Universalkommunikationsverzeichnis’)

(2004/C 94/20)

Language of the case: German

In Case C-326/01 P: Telefon & Buch VerlagsgmbH (Lawyer: H.G. Zeiner), with an address for service in Luxembourg — Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (Fourth Chamber) of 14 June 2001 in Joined Cases T-357/99 and T-358/99 Telefon & Buch v OHIM (Universaltelefonbuch and Universalkommunikationsverzeichnis) [2001] ECR II-1705, by which the Court of First Instance dismissed the actions brought against two decisions of the Third Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 21 October 1999 refusing to register the words ‘Universaltelefonbuch’ and ‘Universalkommunikationsverzeichnis’ as Community trade marks (Cases R 351/1999-3 and R 352/1999-3), seeking to have that judgment set aside, the other party to the proceedings being: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Agents: E. Joly and S. Bonne) – the Court (Fourth Chamber), composed of J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, President of the Chamber, J.-P. Puissochet (Judge-Rapporteur) and F. Macken, Judges; D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, made an order on 5 February 2004, the operative part of which is as follows:

(1)  OJ 2001 C 317.