Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 June 2021 –  
TrekStor v EUIPO – Zagg (Protective cover for computer hardware)

(Case T‑512/20)

(Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered Community design representing a protective cover for computer hardware – Ground for invalidity – Unauthorised use of a work protected under the copyright law of a Member State – Article 25(1)(f) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 – Request that witnesses be heard – Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

| 1. | Community designs – Grounds for invalidity – Unauthorised use of a work protected under the copyright law of a Member State – Law of the Member State serving to define the procedures for acquiring and proving copyright  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 25(1)(f); Commission Regulation No 2245/2002, Art. 28(1)(b)(iii))  (see para. 18) |

| 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 – Representation of a protective cover for computer hardware  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 36, 37) |

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 8 June 2020 (Case R 294/2019-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between TrekStor and Zagg.

Operative part

| 1. | The action is dismissed. |

| 2. | TrekStor GmbH shall pay the costs. |

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