Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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|  | C/2025/2664 | 19.5.2025 |

Judgment of the General Court of 2 April 2025 – SMT v EUIPO – Pies and Rixen (Building materials)

(Case T-220/24)
 [(1)](#ntr1-C_202502664EN.000101-E0001)

(Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered community design representing a profile bar (building materials) - Grounds for invalidity - No individual character - No different overall impression - Article 4(1), Article 6(1)(b), and Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Features of appearance of a product to be necessarily reproduced in their exact form and dimensions in order to permit the interconnection with other products - Article 8(2) of Regulation No 6/2002 - Component part of a complex product - Article 4(2) of Regulation No 6/2002)

(C/2025/2664)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: SMT GmbH (Reutlingen, Germany) (represented by: T. Seifried, lawyer)

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

Other parties to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, interveners before the General Court: Gerrit Pies (Solingen, Germany), Wolfgang Rixen (Solingen) (represented by: M. Wiume, lawyer)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) of 5 March 2024 (Case R-2163/2022-3).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders SMT GmbH to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by MM. Gerrit Pies and Wolfgang Rixen; |

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| 3. | Orders the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to bear its own costs. |

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2664/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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