Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 2 February 2022 –  
Novelis Deutschland v EUIPO – CU.CO. (grill dish)

(Case T‑173/21)

(Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered Community design representing a grill dish – Earlier national design – Ground for invalidity – No individual character – Article 6 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 – Global assessment of all the elements of the earlier design  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 20, 21) |

| 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 22-24, 29) |

| 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 – Criteria for assessment – Creative licence  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6 and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 25, 26) |

| 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 – Representation of a grill dish  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 30, 32, 33, 38, 39) |

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 1 February 2021 (Case R 1856/2019-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Cuki Cofresco and Novelis Deutschland.

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Novelis Deutschland GmbH to pay the costs. |

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