Source: EURLEX
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Order of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 30 January 2018 — Murphy v EUIPO

(Case C‑538/17 P)

(Appeal — Article 181 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court — Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Community Design No 002-159-640-0002 (electronic wristband) — Rejection of the application for a declaration of invalidity)

| 1. | Community designs—Ground 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—Earlier design constituting a significant advancement in technology—Irrelevant  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 4, 6 and 25(1)(d))  (see para. 5) |

| 2. | Community designs—Ground for invalidity—No individual character—Design not giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design—Representation of an electronic wristband  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 4, 6 and 25(1)(d))  (see para. 5) |

| 3. | Appeal—Grounds—Mistaken assessment of the facts—Inadmissibility—Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence—Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted  (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)  (see para. 5) |

Operative part

| 1. | The appeal is dismissed. |

| 2. | Mr Thomas Murphy shall bear his own costs. |

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