29Article 7(1 )(c) of the Regulation pursues an aim which is in the public interest, namely that descriptive signs or indications relating to the categories of goods or services in respect of which registration is applied for may be freely used by all. The provision therefore prevents such signs or indications from being reserved to one undertaking alone because they have been registered as trade marks (see, by analogy, Windsurfing Chiemsee, paragraph 25).
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