CELEX: 62009TN0098
Language: en
Date: 2009-03-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-98/09: Action brought on 11 March 2009 — Tubesca v OHIM — Tubos del Mediterráneo (T TUMESA TUBOS DEL MEDITERRANEO S.A.)

1.5.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 102/33
            
         Action brought on 11 March 2009 — Tubesca v OHIM — Tubos del Mediterráneo (T TUMESA TUBOS DEL MEDITERRANEO S.A.)
   (Case T-98/09)
   2009/C 102/49
   Language in which the application was lodged: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Tubesca (Ailly-sur-Noye, France) (represented by: F. Greffe, avocat)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Tubos del Mediterráneo, SA (Sagunto, Spain)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annulment of the decision delivered by the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM of 17 December 2008 in Case No R 518/2008-4.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Tubos del Mediterráneo, SA
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Figurative mark ‘T TUMESA TUBOS DEL MEDITERRANEO S.A.’ for goods and services in Classes 6, 35 and 42 — application No 4 085 098
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: The applicant
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: National and international word and figurative marks ‘TUBESCA’ for goods in Classes 6, 19 and 20
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Opposition partially upheld; partial refusal to register the mark applied for
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Annulment of the decision of the Opposition Division and rejection of the opposition
   
      Pleas in law: There is a likelihood of confusion between the opposing marks for consumers displaying average attention or end users, especially since the marks ‘TUBESCA’ are well known and highly distinctive.