CELEX: 62013TA0566
Language: en
Date: 2015-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-566/13: Judgment of the General Court of 29 April 2015 — Hostel Tourist World v OHIM — WRI Nominees (HostelTouristWorld.com) (Community trade mark — Cancellation proceedings — Community figurative mark HostelTouristWorld.com — Earlier international word mark HOSTELWORLD.COM — Relative ground for refusal — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Minimal inherent distinctiveness of the earlier mark — Likelihood of confusion)

15.6.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 198/35
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 29 April 2015 — Hostel Tourist World v OHIM — WRI Nominees (HostelTouristWorld.com)
   (Case T-566/13) (1)
   
   ((Community trade mark - Cancellation proceedings - Community figurative mark HostelTouristWorld.com - Earlier international word mark HOSTELWORLD.COM - Relative ground for refusal - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Minimal inherent distinctiveness of the earlier mark - Likelihood of confusion))
   (2015/C 198/47)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Hostel Tourist World, SL (Seville, Spain) (represented by: J. Bartrina Díaz, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Palmero Cabezas, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: WRI Nominees Ltd (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) (represented initially by G. Kelly and A. Payne, solicitors, subsequently by A. Payne, J. Llevat Vallespinosa and J.-Y. Teindas Maillard, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 26 August 2013 (Case R 966/2012-4) concerning cancellation proceedings between the company WRI Nominees Ltd and Hostel Tourist World, SL.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Hostel Tourist World, SL to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 31, 1.2.2014.