CELEX: 62016TA0286
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-286/16: Judgment of the General Court of 21 June 2017 — Kneidinger v EUIPO — Topseat International (toilet seat) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a toilet seat — Earlier Community design — Ground for invalidity — Individual character — Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

7.8.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 256/25
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 21 June 2017 — Kneidinger v EUIPO — Topseat International (toilet seat)
   (Case T-286/16) (1)
   
   ((Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a toilet seat - Earlier Community design - Ground for invalidity - Individual character - Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002))
   (2017/C 256/28)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Ernst Kneidinger (Wilhering, Austria) (represented by: M. Grötschl, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: S. Hanne, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervening before the General Court: Topseat International (Plano, Texas, United States) (represented by: C. Eckhartt, A. von Mühlendahl, and P. Böhner, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 5 April 2016 (Case R 1030/2015-3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Topseat International and Mr Kneidinger.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mr Ernst Kneidinger to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 260, 18.7.2016.