CELEX: 62009TA0255
Language: en
Date: 2012-07-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-255/09: Judgment of the General Court of 13 July 2012 — Caixa Geral de Depósitos v OHIM — Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona ( ‘la Caixa’ ) (Community trade mark — Opposition proceedings — Application for Community figurative mark la caixa — Earlier Portuguese word mark CAIXA — Earlier national word and figurative marks — No likelihood of confusion — Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

25.8.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 258/16
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 13 July 2012 — Caixa Geral de Depósitos v OHIM — Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona (‘la Caixa’)
   (Case T-255/09) (1)
   
   (Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for Community figurative mark la caixa - Earlier Portuguese word mark CAIXA - Earlier national word and figurative marks - No likelihood of confusion - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 40/94 (now Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))
   2012/C 258/25
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Caixa Geral de Depósitos, SA (Lisbon, Portugal) (represented by: F. Porcuna de la Rosa and M. Lobato García-Miján, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: J. Crespo Carrillo, Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervener before the General Court: Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: E. Manresa Medina and J. Manresa Medina, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of OHIM of 24 March 2009 (Case R 556/2008-2), relating to opposition proceedings between Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona and Caixa Geral de Depósitos, SA.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 24 March 2009 (Case R 556/2008-2) as regards the goods covered by the mark applied for in Class 16;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Caixa Geral de Depósitos, SA to bear two thirds of its own costs and to pay two thirds of the costs incurred by OHIM and two thirds of the costs incurred by Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona.
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders OHIM to bear one third of its own costs and to pay one third of the costs incurred by Caixa Geral de Depósitos and one third of the costs incurred by Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 193, 15.8.2009.