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Language: en
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Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 12 March 2020 –  
Gamma-A v EUIPO — Zivju pārstrādes uzņēmumu serviss (Packaging for foodstuffs)

(Case T‑352/19)

(Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing packaging for foodstuffs — Earlier design — Ground for invalidity — No individual character — No different overall impression — Article 6(1)(b) and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

| 1. | Community designs — Appeals procedure — Action before the EU judicature — Jurisdiction of the General Court — Declaratory judgments — Precluded  (Art. 266 TFEU; Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 61(3) and (6))  (see para. 11) |

| 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 — Global assessment of all the elements of the earlier design  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6 and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 17, 18, 39) |

| 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 packaging for foodstuffs  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 24, 40, 43, 49, 50) |

| 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 — Global assessment of all the elements of the earlier design — Nature of the product incorporating a design — Effect  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Recital 14 and Arts 6(1), 25(1)(b) and 36(6))  (see paras 28, 29) |

| 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 — Scope — Content of the product incorporating a design — Not included  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see para. 33) |

| 6. | 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), 10(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 36-38) |

| 7. | 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 — Freedom of the designer  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6 and 25(1)(b))  (see para. 48) |

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 25 March 2019 (Case R 2516/2017-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Piejūra SIA and Gamma-A.

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Gamma-A SIA to pay the costs. |

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