Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2025:332
Date: 2025-03-26
Language of the case: Polish
Court formation: Second Chamber
Subject matter: Intellectual, industrial and commercial property;Designs
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Poland

Judgment of the General Court of 26 March 2025 – Hamster Polska v EUIPO – Budotechnika (Public toilets) (Case T-592/23) 1 (Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered Community design representing public toilets – Ground for invalidity – Scope of the application for invalidity – Disclosure of the earlier design – Proof of disclosure – Novelty – Articles 5 and 7 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002) Language of the case: Polish Parties Applicant: Hamster Polska sp. z o.o. (Rybnik, Poland) (represented by: A. Szczurek, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas and M. Chylińska, Agents) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Budotechnika sp. z o.o. (Pilchowice, Poland) (represented by: A. Pilecka and M. Witkowska, lawyers) Re: By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment and alteration of the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 4 August 2023 (Case R 3/2023-3). Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Hamster Polska sp. z o.o. to pay the costs incurred in the proceedings before the General Court. ____________ 1 OJ C C/2023/544, 6.11.2023.