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Appeal – Community trade mark – Word mark BATEAUX MOUCHES – Refusal of registration – Absence of any distinctive character
Appeals – Grounds – Mistaken assessment of the facts – Inadmissibility – Review by the Court of Justice of the assessment of the evidence – Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 225(1) EC; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see point 21)
Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 10 December 2008 in Case T-365/06 Bateaux mouches v OHIM by which the Court dismissed the action brought by the applicant against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 7 September 2006, concerning proceedings for invalidity of the Community word mark ‘BATEAUX MOUCHES’ – Infringement of Article 7(1)(b) and (3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1) – Misinterpretation of the criteria laid down by the case-law of the Court of Justice – Absence of any distinctive character.
1.The appeal is dismissed.
2.The Compagnie des bateaux mouches SA is ordered to pay the costs.