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Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 8 July 2020 –  
Glimarpol v EUIPO – Metar (Pneumatic power tool)

(Case T‑748/18)

(Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered Community design representing a pneumatic power tool – Earlier design – Proof of disclosure – Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 – Ground for invalidity – Individual character – Different overall impression – Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation No 6/2002)

| 1. | Community designs – Appeals procedure – Action before the EU judicature – Jurisdiction of the General Court – Review of the lawfulness of decisions of the Boards of Appeal – Limits  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 61; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 188)  (see para. 16) |

| 2. | Community designs – Grounds for invalidity – No individual character – Disclosure to the public – Proof of the disclosure  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1), 7, 25(1)(b) and 65(1); Commission Regulation No 2245/2002, Art. 28(1)(b)(v) and (vi))  (see paras 19-22) |

| 3. | 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 – Criteria for assessment  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see para. 34) |

| 4. | 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 – Informed user – Concept  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see para. 39) |

| 5. | 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 paras 45, 47) |

| 6. | Community designs – Conditions for protection – Individual character – Design giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design – Determination of the overall impression in relation to one or more earlier designs, taken individually  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Art. 6)  (see para. 46) |

| 7. | 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 – Representation of a pneumatic power tool  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 49, 65, 66) |

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 4 October 2018 (Case R 1615/2017-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Metar and Glimarpol.

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Glimarpol sp. z o.o. to pay the costs; |

| 3. | Orders Metar sp. z o.o. to bear its own costs. |

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