Court of Justice (Third Chamber) 15 March 2012, C-90/11 and C-91/11 (Alfred Strigl — Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt and Securvita Gesellschaft zur Entwicklung alternativer Versicherungskonzepte mbH v Öko-Invest Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.)

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Third Chamber) 15 March 2012 ( *1 ) ‛Trade marks — Directive 2008/95/EC — Grounds for refusal or invalidity — Verbal expressions which consist of a word combination and a sequence of letters identical to the initial letters of those words — Distinctive character — Descriptive character — Assessment criteria’ In Joined Cases C-90/11 and C-91/11, REFERENCES for a preliminary