62019TJ0352_INF
Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 March 2020 –Gamma-A v EUIPO — Zivju pārstrādes uzņēmumu serviss (Packaging for foodstuffs)
(Case T‑352/19)
(Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing packaging for foodstuffs — Earlier design — Ground for invalidity — No individual character — No different overall impression — Article 6(1)(b) and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)
1.
Community designs — Appeals procedure — Action before the EU judicature — Jurisdiction of the General Court — Declaratory judgments — Precluded
(Art. 266 TFEU; Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 61(3) and (6))
(see para. 11)
2.
Community designs — Grounds for invalidity — No individual character — Design not giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design — Global assessment of all the elements of the earlier design
(Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6 and 25(1)(b))
(see paras 17, 18, 39)
3.
Community designs — Grounds for invalidity — No individual character — Design not giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design — Representation of packaging for foodstuffs
(Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))
(see paras 24, 40, 43, 49, 50)
4.
Community designs — Grounds for invalidity — No individual character — Design not giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design — Global assessment of all the elements of the earlier design — Nature of the product incorporating a design — Effect
(Council Regulation No 6/2002, Recital 14 and Arts 6(1), 25(1)(b) and 36(6))
(see paras 28, 29)
5.
Community designs — Grounds for invalidity — No individual character — Design not giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design — Global assessment of all the elements of the earlier design — Scope — Content of the product incorporating a design — Not included
(Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))
(see para. 33)
6.
Community designs — Grounds for invalidity — No individual character — Design not giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design — Informed user — Concept
(Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1), 10(1) and 25(1)(b))
(see paras 36-38)
7.
Community designs — Grounds for invalidity — No individual character — Design not giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design — Criteria for assessment — Freedom of the designer
(Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6 and 25(1)(b))
(see para. 48)
Re:
Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 25 March 2019 (Case R 2516/2017-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Piejūra SIA and Gamma-A.
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the action;
2.
Orders Gamma-A SIA to pay the costs.