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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10215

16 September 2010
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Court confirms that sign made up by shape of product needed to obtain technical result cannot be registered as Community trade mark

Brussels, 15/09/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 14 September, the Court of Justice of the EU confirmed the ruling of the General Court of 12 November 2008, which came down against the registration as a Community trademark of “any shape consisting exclusively, in its essential characteristics, of the shape of the goods which is technically causal of, and sufficient to obtain, the intended technical result”. In other words: of any sign “made up by shape of the product which is needed...

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