Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 23 May 2007 - The Procter & Gamble Company v OHIM

(Joined Cases T-241/05, T-262/05 to T-264/05, T-346/05, T-347/05, T-29/06 to T-31/06,) ¹

(Community trade mark - Applications for three-dimensional trade marks - Square white tablets with coloured floral design - Absolute ground for refusal - Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 - Absence of distinctive character)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) (represented by: G.Kuipers, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (represented by: D. Schennen, then G. Schneider, Agents)

Re: Nine Actions against the decisions of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 14 April 2005 (case R 843/2004-1), of 3 May 2005 (Case R 845/2004-1), of 4 May 2005 (Case R 849/2004-1), of 1 June 2005 (Case R 1184/2004-1), of 6 July 2005 (Cases R 1188/2004-1 and R 1182/2004-1), of 16 November 2005 (Case R 1183/2004-1), of 21 November 2005 (Case R 1072/2004-1) and of 22 November 2005 (Case R 1071/2004-1) concerning the application to register three-dimensional trade marks.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Dismisses the actions;

Orders the applicant to pay the costs

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¹ - OJ C 205, 20.8.2005.