CELEX: 62006TJ0259
Language: en
Date: 2008-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 16 December 2008. # Miguel Torres, SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark MANSO DE VELASCO - Earlier national word mark VELASCO - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94. # Case T-259/06.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 16 December 2008 – Torres v OHIM – Navisa Industrial Vinícola
            Española (MANSO DE VELASCO)
      (Case T-259/06)
      Community trade mark – Opposition proceedings – Application for the Community word mark MANSO DE VELASCO – Earlier national word mark VELASCO – Relative ground for refusal – Likelihood of confusion – Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94
      Community trade mark – Definition and acquisition of the Community trade mark – Relative grounds for refusal – Opposition by the proprietor of an earlier identical or similar mark registered for identical or similar goods or services
         – Likelihood of confusion with the earlier mark (Council Regulation No 40/94, Art. 8(1)(b)) (see paras 27, 73)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 June 2006 (Case R 865/2005-1) relating to opposition
                  proceedings between Navisa Industrial Vinícola Española, SA and Miguel Torres, SA.
               
            Information relating to the case
      
               Applicant for the Community trade mark:
            
            
               Miguel Torres, SA
            
         
               Community trade mark sought:
            
            
               Word mark MANSO DE VELASCO for goods in Class 33 — Application No 2261527
            
         
               Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings:
            
            
               Navisa Industrial Vinícola Española, SA
            
         
               Mark or sign cited in opposition:
            
            
               Spanish word mark VELASCO for goods in Class 33
            
         
               Decision of the Opposition Division:
            
            
               Opposition upheld and application dismissed
            
         
               Decision of the Board of Appeal:
            
            
               Appeal dismissed
            
         
      Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Miguel Torres SA to pay the costs.