Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 December 2008 -Torres v OHIM - Sociedad Cooperativa del Campo San Ginés (TORRE DE BENÍTEZ)
(Community trade mark - Opposition procedure - Application for Community word mark TORRE DE BENÍTEZ - Earlier national, Community and international word and figurative marks evoking a number of towers - 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, Agent)
Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Sociedad Cooperativa del Campo San Ginés (Cuenca, 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 6 November 2006 (Case R-36/2006-2) relating to opposition proceedings between Miguel Torres, SA and Sociedad Cooperativa del Campo San Ginés.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
1. Dismisses the action;
2. Orders Miguel Torres, SA to pay the costs.
____________1 - OJ C 82, 14.4.2007.