Judgment of the General Court of 12 March 2014 — El Corte Inglés v OHIM — Technisynthese (BTS)

(Case T-592/10) (1)

((Community trade mark - Opposition proceedings - Application for the Community word mark BTS - Earlier Community and national figurative marks TBS - Relative ground for refusal - Likelihood of confusion - Similarity of the signs - Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009))

(2014/C 129/20)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: El Corte Inglés, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by M. López Camba and J. L. Rivas Zurdo initially, then J. L. Rivas Zurdo, E. Seijo Veiguela and I. Munilla Muñoz, 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: Technisynthese SARL (Saint-Pierre-Montlimart, France)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the First Board of Appeal of OHIM of 23 September 2010 (Case R 1380/2009-1) relating to opposition proceedings between Technisynthese SARL and El Corte Inglés, SA.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.	Dismisses the action;

2.	Orders El Corte Inglés, SA to pay the costs.

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(1)   OJ C 80, 12.3.2011.