CELEX: 62008TJ0011
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-09 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 9 September 2011. # Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM). # Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing an internal combustion engine - Earlier national design - Ground for invalidity - No individual character - Visible features of a component part of a complex product - No different overall impression - Informed user - Degree of freedom of the designer - Articles 4, 6 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002. # Case T-11/08.

Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 9 September 2011 – Kwang Yang Motor v OHIM – Honda Giken Kogyo (internal
            combustion engine)
      (Case T-11/08)
      Community design – Invalidity proceedings – Registered Community design representing an internal combustion engine – Earlier national design – Ground for invalidity – No individual character – Visible features of a component part of a complex product – No different overall impression – Informed user – Degree of freedom of the designer – Articles 4, 6 and 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002
      1.                     Community designs – Grounds for invalidity – No individual character – Informed user – Concept (Council Regulation No 6/2002,
            Art. 6(1)) (see paras 23-27)
      2.                     Community designs – Grounds for invalidity – No individual character – Design not giving the informed user a different overall
            impression from that produced by the earlier design – Representation of an internal combustion engine (Council Regulation
            No 6/2002, Arts 4(2), 6)(1) and 25(1)(b)) (see paras 30, 38, 43, 45)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of the decision of 8 October 2007 of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM (Case R 1380/2006-3), relating
                  to invalidity proceedings for Community designs between Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha and Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd.
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd to pay the costs.