Judgment_paragraph 39 · Peek & Cloppenburg KG v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-379/03)

39In this case, the Court's examination must be confined to the question whether, for the relevant public in Germany, the sign for which registration is sought consists exclusively of an indication that may serve, in trade, to designate the geographical origin of the services designated. In this regard, it is common ground that ‘Cloppenburg’ is the name of a town in Lower Saxony numbering about 30000 inhabitants.

Peek & Cloppenburg KG v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-379/03)

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