25The public interest underlying the absolute ground for refusal laid down in Article 7(1)(f) of Regulation No 207/2009 is to ensure that signs which, when used in the European Union, would be contrary to public policy or to accepted principles of morality are not registered (judgments of 20 September 2011, Couture Tech v OHIM (Representation of the Soviet coat of arms), T‑232/10, EU:T:2011:498, paragraph 29, and of 26 September 2014, Brainlab v OHIM (Curve), T‑266/13, not published, EU:T:2014:836, paragraph 13). The registration of a mark as an EU mark is caught by that absolute ground for refusal if, inter alia, it is deeply offensive (see, to that effect, judgment of 5 October 2011, PAKI Logistics v OHIM (PAKI), T‑526/09, not published, EU:T:2011:564, paragraph 12).
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