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Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 December 2008 -Torres v OHIM - Sociedad Cooperativa del Campo San Ginés (TORRE DE BENÍTEZ)

(Case T-16/07) 1

(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.

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1 - OJ C 82, 14.4.2007.