Judgment_paragraph 31 · adidas AG v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-307/17)

31Next, Rule 3(3) of Regulation No 2868/95 provides that the application for registration ‘may contain a description of the mark’. Therefore, if a description is included in the application for registration, that description must be considered together with the graphic representation (see, to that effect and by analogy, judgment of 30 November 2017, Combination of the colours blue and silver, T‑101/15 and T‑102/15, under appeal, EU:T:2017:852, paragraph 79).