Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2018:695
Date: 2018-10-18
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Fifth Chamber
Subject matter: Intellectual, industrial and commercial property;Designs
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Denmark

Judgment of the General Court of 18 October 2018 — Linak v EUIPO — ChangZhou Kaidi Electrical (Electrically operated lifting column) (Case T-368/17) 1 (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing an electrically operated lifting column — Earlier Community design — Ground for invalidity — No individual character — Informed user — No different overall impression — Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Linak A/S (Nordborg, Denmark) (represented by: V. von Bomhard and J. Fuhrmann, lawyers) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented initially by: G. Sakalaite-Orlovskiene and A. Folliard-Monguiral, and subsequently by G. Sakalaite-Orlovskiene and J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agents) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: ChangZhou Kaidi Electrical Co. Ltd (Changzhou, China) Re: Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 21 March 2017 (Case R 1412/2015-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Linak and ChangZhou Kaidi Electrical. Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Linak A/S to pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 249, 31.7.2017.