28In that connection it must be observed that, in his decision of 17 April 1998, OHIM's examiner based the refusal to register the sign ‘Companyline’ as a Community trade mark on Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation No 40/94 alone. The Court of First Instance was accordingly entitled to confine itself in the contested judgment to a consideration of the dispute in the light of that provision, and to hold, in paragraphs 30 and 31 of its judgment, that there was no need to rule on the plea of infringement of Article 7(1 )(c), since for registration to be refused it is sufficient that one of the grounds listed in Article 7(1) applies.
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