CELEX: 62010TN0592
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-592/10: Action brought on 27 December 2010 — El Corte Inglés v OHIM — Technisynthese (BTS)

12.3.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 80/19
            
         Action brought on 27 December 2010 — El Corte Inglés v OHIM — Technisynthese (BTS)
   (Case T-592/10)
   2011/C 80/37
   Language in which the application was lodged: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: El Corte Inglés, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: M. E. López Camba and J. L. Rivas Zurdo, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM: Technisynthese SARL (Saint Pierre Montlimart, France)
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               Annul the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) of 23 September 2010 in Case R 1380/2009-1 in its entirety;
            
         
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               order the defendant and any interveners to pay all the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
      Applicant for a Community trade mark: El Corte Inglés, SA.
   
      Community trade mark concerned: Word mark ‘BTS’ for goods in Classes 14, 18, 25 and 28.
   
      Proprietor of the mark or sign cited in the opposition proceedings: Technisynthese SARL.
   
      Mark or sign cited in opposition: National and Community figurative marks containing the word element ‘TBS’ for goods in Classes 18 and 25.
   
      Decision of the Opposition Division: Opposition rejected.
   
      Decision of the Board of Appeal: Decision of the Opposition Division annulled and opposition upheld.
   
      Pleas in law: Failure to demonstrate that the earlier marks have a reputation and have been put to use, and infringement of Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009, (1) since there is no likelihood of confusion between the marks at issue.
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1).