CELEX: 62010CA0281
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-281/10 P: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 20 October 2011 — PepsiCo, Inc., v Grupo Promer Mon Graphic SA, Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (Appeal — Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 — Articles 5, 6, 10 and 25(1)(d) — Community design — Registered Community design representing a circular promotional item — Prior Community design — Different overall impression — Degree of freedom of the designer — Informed user — Scope of review by the Courts — Distortion of the facts)

10.12.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 362/9
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 20 October 2011 — PepsiCo, Inc., v Grupo Promer Mon Graphic SA, Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
   (Case C-281/10 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 - Articles 5, 6, 10 and 25(1)(d) - Community design - Registered Community design representing a circular promotional item - Prior Community design - Different overall impression - Degree of freedom of the designer - Informed user - Scope of review by the Courts - Distortion of the facts)
   2011/C 362/12
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: PepsiCo, Inc., (represented by: E. Armijo Chávarri, abogado, and V. von Bomhard, Rechtsanwältin)
   
      Other parties to the proceedings: Grupo Promer Mon Graphic SA (represented by: R. Almaraz Palmero, abogada), Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (represented by: A. Folliard-Monguiral, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 18 March 2010 in Case T-9/07 Grupo Promer Mon Graphic v OHIM — Pepsico, by which that Court upheld an action brought by the proprietor of Community design No 53186 1 against decision R 1001/2005-3 of the Third Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) of 27 October 2006, annulling the decision of the Invalidity Division which declared design No 74463 1 (‘promotional item[s] for games’) invalid
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders PepsiCo Inc. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 234, 28.8.2010.