105As regards Community law, the applicant submits that the specific object of the mark Der Grüne Punkt, namely to guarantee the identity of the origin of the marked goods to the final consumer (Case 3/78 Centrafarm [1978] ECR 1823, paragraphs 11 to 14) and to protect its proprietor against a risk of confusion (Case C-317/91 Deutsche Renault [1993] ECR I-6227, paragraph 30, and the case-law cited), would no longer be respected if certain packaging participating in the DSD system and others covered by a competitor system were to bear the mark Der Grüne Punkt without any distinction so that competitors with DSD could benefit from the fact that the DSD system is well known.
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