Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

Order of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 9 December 2022 –  
AMO Development v EUIPO (Medical instruments)

(Case T‑311/22) (
[1](#t-ECR_62022TO0311_INF_EN_01-E0001)
)

(Community designs – Community designs representing medical instruments – No application for renewal – Cancellation of the designs on expiry of the registration – Application for restitutio in integrum – Article 67 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 – Duty to take due care – Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

| 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 paragraphs 17, 18) |

| 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 paragraphs 19, 20, 53) |

| 3. | Community designs – Procedural provisions – Restitutio in integrum – Conditions – Due care required by the circumstances – Exceptional events, which cannot therefore be predicted – Human error in recording information – Precluded  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 67(1))  (see paragraphs 32, 34) |

| 4. | Community designs – Procedural provisions – Probative value of the evidence – Solemn declarations  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 65(1)(f))  (see paragraph 46) |

| 5. | Community designs – Procedural provisions – Registration procedure –Obligation to observe the time limits prescribed by EUIPO – Failure to comply penalised by forfeiture of a right – Breach of principle of proportionality – None  (Council Regulation No 6/2002)  (see paragraph 52) |

Operative part

| 1. | The action is dismissed as manifestly lacking any foundation in law. |

| 2. | AMO Development LLC shall pay the costs. |

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(
[1](#c-ECR_62022TO0311_INF_EN_01-E0001)
) [OJ C 276, 18.7.2022](./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=OJ:C:2022:276:TOC).

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