CELEX: 62020TA0326
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-326/20: Judgment of the General Court of 21 April 2021 — Bibita Group v EUIPO — Benkomers (Beverage bottles) (Community design — Invalidity proceedings — Registered Community design representing a beverage bottle — Prior international design — Ground for invalidity — Conflict with a prior design — Individual character — Informed user — Degree of freedom of the designer — Different overall impression — Article 6 and Article 25(1)(d)(iii) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)

21.6.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 242/40
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 21 April 2021 — Bibita Group v EUIPO — Benkomers (Beverage bottles)
      (Case T-326/20) (1)
      
      (Community design - Invalidity proceedings - Registered Community design representing a beverage bottle - Prior international design - Ground for invalidity - Conflict with a prior design - Individual character - Informed user - Degree of freedom of the designer - Different overall impression - Article 6 and Article 25(1)(d)(iii) of Regulation (EC) No 6/2002)
      (2021/C 242/55)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Bibita Group (Tirana, Albania) (represented by: C. Seyfert, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Union Intellectual Property Office (represented by: G. Sakalaitė-Orlovskienė and J. Crespo Carrillo, acting as Agents)
      
         Other party to the proceedings before the Board of Appeal of EUIPO: Benkomers OOD (Sofia, Bulgaria)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought against the decision of the Third Board of Appeal of EUIPO of 27 April 2020 (Case R 1070/2018 3), relating to invalidity proceedings between Bibita Group and Benkomers.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Bibita Group to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 247, 27.7.2020.