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Judgment of the General Court (Tenth Chamber) of 22 September 2021 –  
T i D kontrolni sistemi v EUIPO – Sigmatron (Signalling apparatuses and devices)

(Case T‑503/20)

(Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered Community design representing signalling apparatuses and devices – Earlier Community design – Ground for invalidity – No individual character – Declaration of invalidity of a prior design – No effect – Disclosure of the earlier design – Informed user – Degree of freedom of the designer – No different overall impression – Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

| 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 – Criteria for assessment  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 44, 55, 56) |

| 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 – Concept  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 48, 49, 53, 54) |

| 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 signalling apparatuses and devices  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6 and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 57-59, 77, 78, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97-99) |

| 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 – Criteria for assessment – Creative licence  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6 and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 60-63) |

| 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  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 6(1) and (2))  (see para. 79) |

| 6. | Community designs – Surrender and invalidity – Application for a declaration of invalidity – Examination of the application – Competence of EUIPO to examine all the requirements laid down in Articles 4 to 9 of Regulation No 6/2002 – Scope  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 4 to 9, 25(1)(b); Commission Regulation No 2245/2002, Art. 28(1)(b)(v))  (see para. 100) |

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 30 April 2020 (Case R 956/2019-3) relating to invalidity proceedings between Sigmatron and T i D kontrolni sistemi.

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders T i D kontrolni sistemi EOOD to pay the costs. |

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