Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 6 September 2023 –  
Cayago Tec v EUIPO – iAqua (Shenzhen) (Personal watercraft, Speedboat)

(Case T‑377/22) (
[1](#t-ECR_62022TJ0377_INF_EN_01-E0001)
)

(Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered Community design representing a personal watercraft or a boat – Earlier Community designs – Grounds for invalidity – Conditions for protection – Individual character – Articles 4, 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 – Degree of freedom of the designer – Overall impression – National judicial proceedings – Expert report)

| 1. | Judicial proceedings – Production of evidence – Time limit – Evidence lodged out of time – Conditions – EUIPO’s decision-making practice after the proceedings – Admissibility  (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 85)  (see paragraph 29) |

| 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 – Criteria for assessment – Creative licence  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(2) and 25(1)(b))  (see paragraphs 46-48) |

| 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 a personal watercraft or of a boat  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paragraphs 54, 55, 58, 59, 69, 70) |

| 4. | Community designs – Procedural provisions – Measures of inquiry – Expert report – Discretion of the Board of Appeal  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 65(1)(e))  (see paragraph 66) |

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Cayago Tec GmbH to pay the costs. |

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(
[1](#c-ECR_62022TJ0377_INF_EN_01-E0001)
) [OJ C 326, 29.8.2022](./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=OJ:C:2022:326:TOC).

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