Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2025:334
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

Action brought on 3 October 2023 – Hamster Polska v EUIPO – Budotechnika (Outdoor toilets, Public toilets) (Case T-610/23) Language in which the application was lodged: Polish Parties Applicant: Hamster Polska sp. z o.o. (Rybnik, Poland) (represented by: A. Szczurek, lawyer) Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal: Budotechnika sp. z o.o. (Pilchowice, Poland) Details of the proceedings before EUIPO Proprietor of the design at issue: Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal Design at issue: Community design for Outdoor toilets, Public toilets – Community design No 1 653 676-0004 Proceedings before EUIPO: Invalidity proceedings Contested decision: Decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 August 2023 in Case R 15/2023-3 Form of order sought The applicant claims that the Court should: annul the contested decision or amend it by rejecting the right to the contested design 1 653 676 0004; order EUIPO to pay the costs of the proceedings, including the costs incurred by the applicant in the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO; order the intervener to bear its own costs of participating in the proceedings before EUIPO and the General Court of the European Union. Pleas in law Infringement of Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Articles 8(1), 53(1) and 63 of Regulation No 6/2002; Infringement of Article 25(1)(b) in conjunction with Articles 4(1), 5(2), 6, 7(1) and 53(1) of Regulation No 6/2002; Infringement of Article 62 of Regulation No 6/2002. ____________