Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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Judgment of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 17 November 2017 — Ciarko v EUIPO — Maan (cooker hood)

(Case T‑684/16)

(Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a cooker hood — Earlier Community design — Ground for invalidity — Lack of individual character — Informed user — Degree of freedom of the designer — No different overall impression — Article 6 and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

| 1. | Community designs—Ground for invalidity—No individual character—Design not giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design—Informed user—Meaning  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 22, 23, 48) |

| 2. | Community designs—Ground 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—Creative licence  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 26-27) |

| 3. | Community designs—Ground for invalidity—No individual character—Design not giving the informed user a different overall impression from that produced by the earlier design—General tendency in design matters—Irrelevant  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see para. 30) |

| 4. | Community designs—Ground 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 prior design  (Council Regulation No 6/2002, Arts 6(1) and 25(1)(b))  (see paras 19, 39, 43) |

Re:

ACTION brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 13 July 2016 (Case R 1212/2015-3) concerning invalidity proceedings between Maan and Ciarko spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością.

Operative part

The Court:

| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

| 2. | Orders Ciarko spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością sp.k. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO); |

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

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