Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 December 2008 -Torres v OHIM - Bodegas Cándido (TORRE DE FRIAS)
(Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - Application for Community word mark TORRE DE FRIAS - Earlier national and international word marks TORRES and LAS TORRES - Relative ground for refusal - No likelihood of confusion)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicant: Miguel Torres, SA (Vilafranca del Penedés, Spain) (represented by: E. Armijo Chávarri, M. Baz de San Ceferino and A. Castán Pérez-Gómez, lawyers)
Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: O. Mondéjar Ortuño and J. García Murillo, Agents)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Bodegas Cándido, SA (Burgos, Spain) (represented by: C. Hernández Hernández, lawyer)
Re:
Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 27 July 2006 (Case R-1069/2004-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Miguel Torres, SA and Bodegas Cándido, SA.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
1. Dismisses the action;
2. Orders Miguel Torres, SA to pay the costs
____________1 - OJ C 310, 16.12.2006.