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Judgment of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 31 January 2019 –  
Thun v EUIPO (Fish)

(Case T‑604/17)

(Community design — Registered Community design — Failure to apply for renewal — Removal of the design from the register on expiry of registration — Application for restitutio in integrum — Cumulative conditions — Duty of due care — Delegation of power — Loss of a right)

| 1. | Community designs — Procedural provisions — Restitutio in integrum — Conditions — Due care required by the circumstances — Delegation of administrative tasks relating to renewal of a design  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 67(1))  (see paras 11, 17-20, 48) |

| 2. | Community designs — Procedural provisions — Restitutio in integrum — Conditions — Due care required by the circumstances — Exceptional events, which cannot therefore be predicted  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 67(1))  (see paras 31-33, 38) |

| 3. | EU law — Interpretation — Provision containing no express reference to the law of Member States — Independent and uniform interpretation  (see para. 37) |

| 4. | Judicial proceedings — Application initiating proceedings — Formal requirements — Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — Pleas in law not set out in the application — General reference to other documents — Inadmissibility  (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 177(1)(d))  (see para. 46) |

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 9 June 2017 (Case R 1680/2016-3) relating to an application for restitutio in integrum.

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Thun SpA to pay the costs. |

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