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Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 10 May 2019 –  
Zott v EUIPO — TSC Food Products (Ready-to-eat rectangular cake)

(Case T‑517/18)

(Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Community design representing a ready-to-eat rectangular cake — Earlier Community designs — Ground for invalidity — No individual character — No different overall impression — Designer’s degree of freedom — Informed user — Article 4(1), Article 6(1)(b) and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

| 1. | 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 prior design  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 25, 49, 53) |

| 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 — Informed user — Definition  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 26, 27) |

| 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 — Criteria for assessment — Creative licence  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(2) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 31, 41) |

| 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 — Representation of a ready-to-eat rectangular cake  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 61, 63) |

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 27 June 2018 (Case R 1341/2017-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between TSC Food Products and Zott.

Operative part

| 1. | The action is dismissed. |

| 2. | Zott SE & Co. KG is ordered to pay the costs. |

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