Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| European flag | Official Journal  of the European Union | EN  Series C |

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|  | C/2023/328 | 30.10.2023 |

Judgment of the General Court of 6 September 2023 — Cayago Tec v EUIPO — iAqua (Shenzhen) (Personal watercraft, Speedboat)

(Case T-377/22) [(1)](#ntr1-C_202300328EN.000101-E0001)

(Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a personal watercraft or a boat - Earlier Community designs - Grounds for invalidity - Conditions for protection - Individual character - Articles 4, 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Degree of freedom of the designer - Overall impression - National judicial proceedings - Expert report)

(C/2023/328)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Cayago Tec GmbH (Bad Salzuflen, Germany) (represented by: J. Güell Serra and S. Schröter, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: J. Ivanauskas, acting as Agent)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: iAqua (Shenzhen) Ltd (Shenzhen, China) (represented by: E. Edissonov Kirilov, lawyer)

Re:

By its action based on Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks annulment of the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 19 April 2022 (Case R 951/2021-3).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders Cayago Tec GmbH to pay the costs. |

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2023/328/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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