Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 16.9.2006 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 224/34 |

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Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 July 2006 — Torres v OHIM — Bodegas Muga (Torre Muga)

(Case T-247/03)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2006224EN.01003402-E0001)

(Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for figurative Community trade mark Torre Muga - Earlier national and international word marks TORRES - Likelihood of confusion - Breach of the rights of the defence)

(2006/C 224/74)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Miguel Torres (Vilafranca del Penedés, Spain) (represented by: E. Armijo Chávarri, M.A. Baz de San Ceferino and A. Castán Pérez-Gómez, lawyers)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: I. de Medrano Caballero and S. Laitinen, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Bodegas Muga, SA (Haro, Spain) (represented by: L.M. Polo Flores and F. Porcuna de la Rosa, lawyers)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 7 April 2003 (Case R 998/2001-1) concerning opposition proceedings between Miguel Torres, SA, and Bodegas Muga, SA

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders the applicant to pay the costs incurred by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM); |

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| 3. | Orders the intervener to bear its own costs. |

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