Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 4 July 2017 —  
Murphy v EUIPO — Nike Innovate (Electronic wristband)

(Case T‑90/16)

(Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing an electronic wristband — Prior Community design — Ground for invalidity — Individual character — Different overall impression — Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Obligation to state reasons — Article 62 of Regulation No 6/2002)

| 1. | Community designs — Procedural provisions — Statement of reasons for decisions — Article 62, first sentence, of Regulation No 6/2002 — Scope identical to that of Article 296 TFEU — Recourse by the Board of Appeal to implicit reasoning — Lawfulness — Conditions  (Art. 296 TFEU; Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 62)  (see paras 19-22) |

| 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 — Criteria for assessment — Creative licence  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(2), and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 36, 37) |

| 3. | 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 6(1), and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 41, 65, 70) |

| 4. | 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 — Global assessment of all the elements of the prior design  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1), and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 43, 55, 69) |

Re:

ACTION brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 19 November 2015 (Case R 736/2014–3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Mr Murphy and Nike Innovate.

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Mr Thomas Murphy to pay the costs. |

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