Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 22.5.2023 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 179/36 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 22 March 2023 — B&Bartoni v EUIPO — Hypertherm (Electrode to insert into a torch)

(Case T-617/21) [(1)](#ntr1-C_2023179EN.01003601-E0001)

(Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing an electrode to insert into a torch - Ground for invalidity - Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Component part of a complex product)

(2023/C 179/51)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: B&Bartoni spol. s r.o. (Dolní Cetno, Czech Republic) (represented by: E. Lachmannová, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Hypertherm, Inc. (Hanover, New Hampshire, United States) (represented by: J. Day, Solicitor, and T. de Haan, 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 16 July 2021 (Case R 2843/2019-3).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders B&Bartoni spol. s r.o. to pay the costs. |

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