CELEX: C2006/224/74
Language: en
Date: 2006-09-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-247/03: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 July 2006 — Torres v OHIM — Bodegas Muga (Torre Muga) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for figurative Community trade mark Torre Muga — Earlier national and international word marks TORRES — Likelihood of confusion — Breach of the rights of the defence)

16.9.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 224/34
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 July 2006 — Torres v OHIM — Bodegas Muga (Torre Muga)
   (Case T-247/03) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for figurative Community trade mark Torre Muga - Earlier national and international word marks TORRES - Likelihood of confusion - Breach of the rights of the defence)
   (2006/C 224/74)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Miguel Torres (Vilafranca del Penedés, Spain) (represented by: E. Armijo Chávarri, M.A. Baz de San Ceferino and A. Castán Pérez-Gómez, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: I. de Medrano Caballero and S. Laitinen, acting as Agents)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM intervening before the Court of First Instance: Bodegas Muga, SA (Haro, Spain) (represented by: L.M. Polo Flores and F. Porcuna de la Rosa, lawyers)
   Re:
   Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 7 April 2003 (Case R 998/2001-1) concerning opposition proceedings between Miguel Torres, SA, and Bodegas Muga, SA
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to pay the costs incurred by the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM);
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the intervener to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 213, 6.9.2003.