41Nevertheless, the purpose of Directive 89/104 is generally to strike a balance between the interest which the proprietor of a trade mark has in safeguarding its essential function, on the one hand, and the interests of other economic operators in having signs capable of denoting their products and services, on the other (Case C-145/05 Levi Strauss [2006] ECR I-3703, paragraph 29).
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