75Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation No 40/94 pursues an aim which is in the public interest, which requires that signs or indications which may serve, in trade, to designate characteristics of the goods or services for which registration is sought, may be freely used by all. That provision accordingly prevents such signs and indications from being reserved to one undertaking alone because they have been registered as trade marks (Case 0173/04 P Deutsche SiSi-Werke v OHIM [2006] ECR I-551, paragraph 62 and the case-law there cited).
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