Case T-285/06: 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)
Date: 2008-12-18
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: EU trade mark, European Union Intellectual Property Office, action for annulment (EU), trade-mark law

21.2.2009

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 44/43

Operative part of the judgment

2. Orders Miguel Torres, SA to pay the costs.

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

(1) OJ C 310, 16.12.2006.

2. Orders General Química, SA, Repsol Química, SA and Repsol
YPF, SA to bear their own costs and pay the Commission's costs.

(1) OJ C 131, 3.6.2006.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 December
2008 — Torres v OHIM — Bodegas Cándido (TORRE DE
FRIAS)

(Case T-285/06) (1)

(Community trade mark — Opposition procedure — Applica-
tion 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)

Parties

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 December
2008 — Torres v OHIM — Vinícola de Tomelloso (TORRE
DE GAZATE)

(Case T-286/06) (1)

(Community trade mark — Opposition procedure — Applica-
tion for Community word mark TORRE DE GAZATE —
Earlier national and international word marks TORRES and
LAS TORRES — Relative ground for refusal — No likelihood
of confusion)

(2009/C 44/74)

Language of the case: Spanish

(2009/C 44/73)

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
(represented by: C. Hernández Hernández,
(Burgos, Spain)
lawyer)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of
the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal
Appeal of
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;

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: Vinícola de Tomelloso,
SCL (Tomelloso, Spain) (represented by: J. Casajuana Espinosa,
lawyer)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of
the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal
Appeal of
(Trade Marks and Designs) of 27 July 2006 (Case
Market
R-421/2004-2)
relating to opposition proceedings between
Miguel Torres, SA and Vinícola de Tomelloso, SCL.

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.