Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 September 2009 — JanSport Apparel v OHIM (BUILT TO RESIST)

(Case T-80/07) (1)

(Community trade mark - Application for the Community word mark BUILT TO RESIST - Absolute ground for refusal - Descriptive character - Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009)

2009/C 267/96

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: JanSport Apparel Corp. (Wilmington, Delaware, United States) (represented by: C. Bercial Arias, C. Casalonga and K. Dimidjian-Lecompte, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Laitinen initially, and subsequently by O. Mondéjar Ortuño, acting as Agents)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of 12 January 2007 of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM (Case R 1090/2006-2) concerning an application for registration of the word mark BUILT TO RESIST as a Community trade mark.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

(1)  OJ C 95, 28.4.2007.