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Judgment of the General Court of 4 June 2025 – Delta-Sport Handelskontor v EUIPO – Decathlon (Diving mask)

(Case T-1061/23)
 [(1)](#ntr1-C_202503896EN.000101-E0001)

(Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a diving mask - Grounds for invalidity - Characteristics of the appearance of a product dictated exclusively by its technical function - Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - No individual character - Article 4(1) and Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation No 6/2002)

(C/2025/3896)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Delta-Sport Handelskontor (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by: N. Boespflug, lawyer)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: C. Bovar and E. Nicolás Gómez, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Decathlon (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France) (represented by: P. Böhner, A. von Mühlendahl, A. Munier and C. Eckhartt, lawyers)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks, in essence, the annulment and alteration of the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 11 August 2023 (Case R 1731/2022-3).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Delta-Sport Handelskontor GmbH to pay the costs, including the costs necessarily incurred by Decathlon for the purposes of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). |

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/3896/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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