Judgment_paragraph 41 · Procter & Gamble Company v European Union Intellectual Property Office (C-383/99 P)

41It is true that Article 7(2) of Regulation No 40/94 states that Article 7(1) is to apply notwithstanding that the grounds of non-registrability obtain in only part of the Community. That provision, which was rightly cited at paragraph 24 of the contested judgment, implies that, if a combination of words is purely descriptive in one of the languages used in trade within the Community, that is sufficient to render it ineligible for registration as a Community trade mark.

Procter & Gamble Company v European Union Intellectual Property Office (C-383/99 P)

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