Judgment;Information — ECLI:EU:T:2025:1050
Date: 2025-11-19
Language of the case: German
Court formation: Second Chamber
Procedure: Action for annulment
Origin: Germany

Judgment of the General Court of 19 November 2025 – Heinrich Sieber & Co. v EUIPO – Achilles (Shopping bags) (Case T-641/24) 1 (European Union design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered European Union design representing a shopping bag – Ground for invalidity – Lack of unicity of the design – Articles 3(a) and 25(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 in the version prior to Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 – Consistency of views) Language of the case: German Parties Applicant: Heinrich Sieber & Co. GmbH & Co. KG (Bad Reichenhall, Germany) (represented by: M. Pütz-Poulalion, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: E. Nicolás Gómez, acting as Agent) Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Dieter Achilles (Neu-Isenburg, Germany) (represented by: M. Hülsewig, lawyer) Re: By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 9 October 2024 (Case R 1100/2023-3). Operative part of the judgment The Court: 1. Dismisses the action; 2. Orders Heinrich Sieber & Co. GmbH & Co. KG to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Dieter Achilles; 3. Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear its own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C, C/2025/589, 3.2.2025.