Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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Judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 6 March 2024 –  
Puma v EUIPO – Handelsmaatschappij J. Van Hilst (Shoe)

(Case T-647/22) (
[1](#t-ECR_62022TJ0647_INF_EN_01-E0001)
)

(Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered community design representing a shoe – Disclosure of the prior design – Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

| 1. | Community designs – Grounds for invalidity – No individual character – Objective assessment  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paragraph 15) |

| 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 – Global assessment of all the elements of the earlier design  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paragraph 25) |

| 3. | Community designs – Grounds for invalidity – No individual character – Disclosure to the public – Proof of the disclosure  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 7(1), 25(1)(b) and 65(1); Commission Regulation No 2245/2002, Art. 28(1)(b)(v) and (vi))  (see paragraphs 29-34, 60) |

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Puma SE to pay the costs. |

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(
[1](#c-ECR_62022TJ0647_INF_EN_01-E0001)
) [OJ C 463, 5.12.2022](./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=OJ:C:2022:463:TOC).

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