Procter & Gamble v Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market ... [2001] Case C-383/99 P
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Company sought to register trade mark ‘Baby Dry’ in relation to nappies.
Held
“Baby dry” was a lexical invention
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Thus as a whole, mark was not descriptive
Juxtaposition of words was unfamiliar in English language
Combination of words was not used to describe either nappies or their characteristics
This was case even though individual words themselves were descriptive.
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