Source: EURLEX
Language: en
Format: md

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| 29.6.2015 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 213/30 |

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Judgment of the General Court of 13 May 2015 — Group Nivelles v OHIM — Easy Sanitary Solutions (Shower drain conduit)

(Case T-15/13)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2015213EN.01003001-E0001)

((Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered design representing a shower drain conduit - Earlier design - Grounds for invalidity - Novelty - Individual character - Visible characteristic of the earlier design - Goods at issue - Articles 4 to 7, 19 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002))

(2015/C 213/51)

Language of the case: Dutch

Parties

Applicant: Group Nivelles (Gingelom, Belgium) (represented by: H. Jonkhout, lawyer)

Defendant: Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: S. Bonne and A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agents)

Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of OHIM, intervening before the General Court: Easy Sanitary Solutions BV (Losser, Netherlands) (represented by: F. Eijsvogels, lawyer)

Re:

Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 October 2012 (Case R 2004/2010-3) concerning invalidity proceedings between I-drain BVBA and Easy Sanitary Solutions BV.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Annuls the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) of 4 October 2012 (Case R 2004/2010-3); |

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| 2. | Dismisses the remainder of the action; |

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| 3. | Orders OHIM to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Group Nivelles and Easy Sanitary Solutions BV. |

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