Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

Order of the General Court (Tenth Chamber) of 15 July 2020 –  
Koopman International v EUIPO – Tinnus Enterprises and Mystic Products (Fluid distribution equipment)

(Case T‑841/19)

(Action for annulment – Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered Community design representing fluid distribution equipment – Suspension of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal – Act not open to challenge – Preparatory act – Inadmissibility)

| 1. | Action for annulment – Actionable measures – Concept – Measures producing binding legal effects – Preparatory measures – Not included  (Art. 263 TFEU)  (see paras 20-22, 27) |

| 2. | Action for annulment – Actionable measures – Concept – Measures producing binding legal effects – Preparatory measures – Decision of the Board of Appeal of EUIPO to suspend the appeal proceedings pending a definitive decision of the General Court in the case which is likely to influence the pending case – Not included  (Art. 263 TFEU; Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 61(1))  (see paras 25, 26, 28) |

Re:

Action brought against the provisional decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 18 September 2019 (Case R 1009/2018-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Mystic Products Import & Export and Koopman International, on the one hand, and Tinnus Enterprises, on the other hand.

Operative part

| 1. | The action is dismissed as inadmissible. |

| 2. | Koopman International BV shall pay its own costs and the costs incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and by Tinnus Enterprises LLC. |

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