Case T-284/07 P: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of 26 November 2008 — OHIM v López Teruel (Appeal — Staff cases — Officials — Admissibility — Invalidity — Application for an Invalidity Committee to be convened — Circumscribed powers of the Appointing Authority)
Date: 2008-11-26
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment (EU), civil servant, civil service, regulations for civil servants

C 19/28

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

24.1.2009

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 2 December
2008 — Ebro Puleva v OHIM — Berenguel (BRILLO'S)

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of
26 November 2008 — OHIM v López Teruel

(Case T-275/07) (1)

(Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Appli-
cation for Community word mark BRILLO'S — Earlier
national
featuring the word element
‘brillante’ — Relative ground for refusal — Likelihood of
confusion — Similarity of the signs — Article 8(1)(b) of
Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

figurative marks

(Case T-284/07 P) (1)

(Appeal — Staff cases — Officials — Admissibility — Inva-
lidity — Application for an Invalidity Committee to be
the Appointing
convened — Circumscribed powers

of

Authority)

(2009/C 19/53)

Language of the case: French

(2009/C 19/52)

Parties

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Ebro Puleva, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: P.
Casamitjana Lleonart, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: O. Montalto, acting
as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM
intervening before the Court of First Instance: Luis Berenguel, SL (El
by: C. Hernández
Barranquete-Níjar,
Hernández)

(represented

Spain)

Appellant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
I. de
(Trade Marks and Designs)
Medrano Caballero and E. Maurage, Agents)

(represented by:

(OHIM)

Other party to the proceedings: Adelaida López Teruel (Guadalajara,
Spain) (represented by:
initially L. Levi and C. Ronzi, then L.
Levi, lawyers)

Re:

Appeal against the judgment of the Civil Service Tribunal of the
European Union (First Chamber) of 22 May 2007 in Case
F-97/06 López Teruel v OHIM, not yet published in the ECR,
asking for that judgment to be set aside.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the appeal;

2. Orders the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade

Marks and Designs) (OHIM) to pay the costs.

Re:

(1) OJ C 211, 8.9.2007.

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of
Appeal of OHIM of 21 May 2007 (Case R 493/2006-2)
concerning opposition proceedings between Ebro Puleva, SA
and Luis Berenguel, SL.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 26 November
2008 — New Look v OHIM (NEW LOOK)

Operative part of the judgment

(Case T-435/07) (1)

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders Ebro Puleva, SA to pay the costs.

(Community trade mark — Application for the Community
word mark NEW LOOK — Absolute ground for refusal —
character acquired through use —
Lack of distinctive

Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

(2009/C 19/54)

Language of the case: English

(1) OJ C 235, 6.10.2007.

Parties

Applicant: New Look Ltd (Weymouth, United Kingdom) (repre-
sented by: S. Malynicz, Barrister, and M. Blair and K. Gilbert,
Solicitors)