Judgment_paragraph 45 · Henkel KGaA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) (C-456/01 P, C-457/01 P)

45Each of the grounds for refusal to register listed in Article 7(1 )(b) of Regulation No 40/94 is independent of the others and calls for separate examination. Furthermore, the various grounds for refusal must be interpreted in the light of the public interest underlying each of them (see, to that effect, Case C-299/99 Philips [2002] ECR I-5475, paragraph 77, and Linde, paragraphs 67 and 71).