CELEX: C2006/294/108
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Case T-259/06: Action brought on 20 September 2006 — Torres v OHIM — Navisa Industrial Vinícola Española (MANSO DE VELASCO)

2.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 294/52
            
         Action brought on 20 September 2006 — Torres v OHIM — Navisa Industrial Vinícola Española (MANSO DE VELASCO)
   (Case T-259/06)
   (2006/C 294/108)
   Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Miguel Torres SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: E. Armijo Chávarri and A. Castán Pérez-Gómez, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Navisa Industrial Vinícola Española SA
   Form of order sought
   
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               annul the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 29 June 2006 in Case R-865/2005-1;
            
         
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               order OHIM to pay the costs.
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: Miguel Torres SA
   
      Community trade mark concerned: 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 refusal of the application
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Dismissal of the appeal
   
      Pleas in law: Infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (1) given that there is no likelihood of confusion between the conflicting signs making them incompatible.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ L 11 of 14.1.1994, p. 1).