CELEX: 62016TA0684
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-684/16: Judgment of the General Court of 17 November 2017 — Ciarko v EUIPO — Maan (cooker hood) (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)

8.1.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 5/37
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 17 November 2017 — Ciarko v EUIPO — Maan (cooker hood)
   (Case T-684/16) (1)
   
   ((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))
   (2018/C 005/50)
   Language of the case: Polish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Ciarko spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością sp.k.(Sanok, Poland) (represented by: M. Żabińska, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: D. Walicka, acting as Agent)
   
      Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO, intervener before the General Court: Maan sp. z o.o. (Grójec, Poland)
   
      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 of the judgment
   
   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.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 410, 7.11.2016.