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Judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 13 December 2017 – Delfin Wellness v EUIPO – Laher (Infrared and sauna cabins)

(Case T-114/16)

(Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered community designs representing infrared and sauna cabins — Earlier designs — Ground for invalidity — Lack of novelty — Article 5 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Disclosure of the earlier designs before the date of priority — Article 7(1) and (2) of Regulation No 6/2002 — Right to be heard — Article 64(1) of Regulation No 6/2002)

| 1. | Community designs–Appeals procedure–Action before the EU judicature–Jurisdiction of the General Court–Re-evaluation of the facts in the light of evidence produced for the first time before it–Not included  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 61(2))  (see paras 27, 29) |

| 2. | Community designs–Ground for invalidity–Lack of novelty–Previous disclosure of identical design–Proof of the disclosure  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 5(1)(b) and 7(1))  (see paras 47-50) |

| 3. | Community designs–Procedural provisions–Statement of reasons for decisions–First sentence of Article 62 of Regulation No 6/2002–Scope identical to that of Article 296 TFEU–Recourse by the Board of Appeal to implicit reasoning–Lawfulness–Conditions  (Art. 296 TFEU; Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 62, first sentence)  (see paras 68, 69) |

| 4. | Community designs–Procedural provisions–Decisions of the Office–Observance of the rights of the defence–Scope of the principle  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 62)  (see para. 112) |

| 5. | Community designs–Appeals procedure–Recourse to the oral procedure–Discretion of the Office  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 64(1))  (see para. 114) |

Re:

ACTIONS brought against three decisions of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 12 January 2016 (Cases R 849/2014–3, R 850/2014–3 and R 851/2014–3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Delfin Wellness and Ms Laher.

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Delfin Wellness GmbH to pay the costs, including the costs necessarily incurred by Ms Sabine Laher for the purposes of the three sets of proceedings before the Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). |

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