CELEX: C2006/294/93
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Case T-172/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 27 September 2006 — Telefónica v OHIM — Branch (emergia) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for the figurative Community trade mark emergia — Earlier word Community trade mark EMERGEA — Likelihood of confusion — Refusal to register — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)

2.12.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 294/44
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 27 September 2006 — Telefónica v OHIM — Branch (emergia)
   (Case T-172/04) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the figurative Community trade mark emergia - Earlier word Community trade mark EMERGEA - Likelihood of confusion - Refusal to register - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94)
   (2006/C 294/93)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Telefónica, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: A. Sirimarco, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Laporta Insa, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the Court of First Instance: David Branch (Reading, United Kingdom) (represented by: initially, C. Berenguer Marsal, and subsequently, I.M. Barroso Sánchez-Lafuente and M.C. Trullols Durán, lawyers)
   Re:
   Action for annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 12 March 2004 (Case R 676/2002-1) relating to opposition proceedings between David Branch and Telefónica, SA.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 179, 10.07.2004.