Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2008:121
Date: 2008-04-22
Language of the case: Spanish
Court formation: Third Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Trade marks;Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
Concepts: Word marks applied for
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 22 April 2008 - Casa Editorial El Tiempo v OHIM - Instituto Nacional de Meteorología (EL TIEMPO) (Case T-233/06) 1 (Community trade mark - Opposition - Application for Community word mark EL TIEMPO - Earlier national word marks TELETIEMPO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94) Language of the case: Spanish Parties Applicant: Casa Editorial El Tiempo, SA (Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia) (represented by: A. Fernández Lerroux and A. Fernández Fernández-Pacheco, lawyers) Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. García Murillo, acting as Agent) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Instituto Nacional de Meteorología (Madrid, Spain) Re: Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 22 June 2006 (Case R 760/2005-4) concerning opposition proceedings between the Instituto Nacional de Meteorología and Casa Editoria El Tiempo, SA. Operative part of the judgment The Court: 1. Dismisses the action; 2. Orders Casa Editorial El Tiempo to pay the costs. ____________ 1 - OJ C 261, 28.10.2006.