Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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| 28.8.2017 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 283/31 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 13 July 2017 — Boomkwekerij van Rijn-de Bruyn v CPVO — Artevos (Oksana)

(Case T-767/14)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2017283EN.01003101-E0001)

((New varieties of plants - Community plant variety rights - Application for a Community plant variety right for the pear variety Oksana - Objections - Rejection of the application by the Board of Appeal of the CPVO - Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 - Novelty of the candidate variety - Lack of evidence))

(2017/C 283/45)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Boomkwekerij van Rijn-de Bruyn BV (Uden, Netherlands) (represented by: P. Jonker, lawyer)

Defendant: Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) (represented by: F. Mattina, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of CPVO, intervening before the General Court: Artevos GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany) (represented by: G. Würtenberger, W.R. Kunze, lawyers, and B. Schnell, Solicitor)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of the CPVO: Dachverband Kulturpflanzen- und Nutztiervielfalt eV (Bielefeld, Germany)

Re:

Action against the decision of the Board of Appeal of the CPVO of 2 July 2014 (Case A 007/2013) concerning the grant of a Community plant variety right in respect of pears of the Oksana variety.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Boomkwekerij van Rijn-de Bruyn BV to pay the costs. |

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