Ford Motor Company v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-91/99)

Judgment of 30 Mar 2000

law://eu/cjeu/1999/t-91-99/para_23@2026-11-15

23In the words of the second recital in the preamble to Regulation No 40/94, the Community trade mark arrangements are to enable undertakings by means of one procedural system to obtain Community trade marks to which uniform protection is given and which produce their effects throughout the entire area of the Community, and the principle of the unitary character of the Community trade mark thus stated is to apply unless otherwise provided for in that regulation. The same principle is set down in Article 1(2) of Regulation No 40/94 which provides that the Community trade mark is to have ‘a unitary character’, which implies that ‘[i]t shall have equal effect throughout the Community’.

Ford Motor Company v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-91/99)

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