Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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Judgment of the General Court of 13 November 2024 – Praha Alfa-Med v EUIPO – Rifetech (Apparatus and installations for medical or laboratory diagnosis)

(Case T-614/23)
 [(1)](#ntr1-C_202500176EN.000101-E0001)

(Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing apparatus and installations for medical or laboratory diagnosis - Prior design - Obligation to state reasons - No individual character - No different overall impression - Informed user - Degree of freedom of the designer - Articles 4 to 6, Article 25(1)(b) and Article 62 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

(C/2025/176)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicant: Praha Alfa-Med s. r. o. (Prague, Czech Republic) (represented by: M. Edelmann, lawyer)

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: Rifetech s. r. o. (Brno, Czech Republic)

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 28 June 2023 (Case R 2504/2022-3).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

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| 1. | Dismisses the action; |

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| 2. | Orders EUIPO and Praha Alfa-Med s. r. o. to bear their own costs. |

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/176/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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